When we were birds / stories by Maria Mutch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mutch, Maria, author.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Canadian--21st century.

Short stories, Canadian.

Genre:

Short stories.

Short stories, Canadian.

Physical Description:

234 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; London ; Toronto ; Sydney ; New Delhi : Simon & Schuster, [2018]

Summary:

"From Governor General's Literary Awards finalist Maria Mutch comes a startlingly inventive debut collection that recalls the works of Margaret Atwood, Kelly Link, Karen Russell, and Heather O'Neill. Wolves talk, notes magically appear on a woman's skin, Red Riding Hood concocts a clever escape, a peregrine turns into a woman with strange compulsions, and Glenn Gould re-emerges into the world as a bird trapped by curious onlookers. Speaking in the irresistible language of fable, romance, and eroticism, these deliciously dark and evocative stories masterfully navigate the space where perception and reality blur. Punctuated with photographs by the author and exquisite drawings from an 1884 book entitled Practical Taxidermy, When We Were Birds is an unforgettably intoxicating assemblage of stories from a gifted writer that will surprise and delight any reader--leaving them craving more."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I

The peregrine at the end of the world: (strange things happen before the apocalypse) p. 5

The logic of loss: (stealing a baby is easy) p. 35

Appetites: (red riding hood has a plan) p. 53

Phone booth: (vanishing people and a road trip) p. 63

Part II

Ambivalence: a prologue: (the perils of friendship) p. 83

The bastard notebook: (blue, a sadist) p. 89

Kites: (bad boyfriend) p. 125

Sea of love: (storm surge) p. 133

Part III

Capacity: (sleeping for 100 years) p. 151

Two stories about glenn gould

Loon seeks moth: (a love letter) p. 161

Very old, enormous: (bad wings and a bad piano) p. 171

Messages from the snow: (enough said) p. 185.

Other Format:

Mutch, Maria. Short stories. Selections When we were birds.:

ISBN:

9781501182792

150118279X

OCLC:

990234372