Turf / stories by Elizabeth Crane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crane, Elizabeth, 1961- author.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

End of the world--Fiction.

End of the world.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

227 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Soft Skull Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Through her three story collections and two novels, Elizabeth Crane's singular literary vision has created worlds of characters standing boldly in the face of their complicated circumstances. Blazing through states, cities, towns, continents, Crane fearlessly pivots from micro to macro, humor to tragedy, past to present, mixing an off kilter sensibility with a heartbreaking reality, guiding us into the fringed and often fantastical lives of her characters. And that has never been truer than in her new collection, Turf. The end of the world as seen through a young couple in Brooklyn, who find a baby in a bucket on their front step; a group of geniuses who meet every Wednesday, able to unlock all the secrets of the universe except for the unknowable mystery of love; a woman and her dog walker whose friendship is uprooted by an incident at the park; these are dark, intriguing vistas explored in Crane's glowing collection. For as places change, and people come and go, these stories in Turf remind us that it is the unchanging nature of the human heart that connects us all"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Everywhere, now

The genius meetings

Star babies

Roosters

Here everything's better

Some concerns

Where time goes

Looking

All the wigs of the world

Mr. and Mrs. P are married

Best friends seriously forever

Old friends

Justin Bieber's hair in a box

Stella's thing

Notes for an important American story

Heroes

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Video

Wind

We collect things

Today in a post-apocalyptic problems

Notes for a dad story.

ISBN:

9781619029347

1619029340

OCLC:

960834639

Publisher Number:

99974838024