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God, the moon, and other megafauna / stories by Kellie Wells.
LIBRA PS3623.E47 A6 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wells, Kellie, 1962- author.
- Series:
- Richard Sullivan prize in short fiction
- The Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 180 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Kellie Wells is a writer of startling imagination whose "phantasmal stories," Booklist says, "shimmer with a dreamlike vibrancy." God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna, Wells's second collection of short stories and winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, is populated with the world's castoffs, cranks, and inveterate oddballs, the deeply aggrieved, the ontologically challenged, the misunderstood mopes that haunt the shadowy wings of the world's main stage. Here you will find a teacup-sized aerialist who tries to ingest the world's considerable suffering; a lonely god growing ever lonelier as the Afterlife swells with monkeys and other improbable occupants; a father fluent in the language of the Dead who has difficulty communicating with his living son; and Death himself, a moony adolescent with a tender heart and a lack of ambition. God-haunted and apocalyptic, comic and formally inventive, these stories give lyrical voice to the indomitability of the everyday underdog, and they will continue to resonate long after the last word has been read"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Moon
- A Unified Theory of Human Behavior 3
- L'Enfant du Paradis 18
- Moon, Moon, My Honey 44
- God
- Threnody 57
- In the Hatred of a Minute 61
- Ever After 73
- Kansas
- Telling the Chicken 87
- Kansas 90
- The Rising Girl 101
- Fauna
- Animalmancy 113
- The Girl, the Wolf, the Crone 125
- The Grift of the Magpie 132
- Apocalypse
- The Incinerating Place 143
- The Sorrows 158
- The Arse End of the World 163.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wells, Kellie, 1962- author. God, the moon, and other megafauna
- ISBN:
- 9780268102258
- 0268102252
- 9780268102265
- 0268102260
- OCLC:
- 983824170
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