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Full metal jhacket / Matthew Derby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Derby, Matthew, 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology and civilization--Fiction.
- Technology and civilization.
- Science fiction, American.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Two boys discover that the title of their stop-motion animated film about Vietnam has been taken by director Stanley Kubrick. A 150-year-ald woman on the run from the government is tracked down by the company who extended her life. A military contractor carrying his robot son in a gym bag struggles to find his way out of the Nigerian delta during a bloody civil war. The wife of an up-and-coming politician grieves his infidelity by prowling rooftops with a sniper rifle. Following his celebrated debut collection, Super Flat Times, Matthew Derby delivers a disturbing new set of stories that plunges us into a lonely heartland of misfits, outcasts, and would-be assassins who lurk in the shadows, searching for connection and meaning in all the wrong places. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 January in December 1
- 2 Dokken 18
- 3 The Snipe 29
- 4 Full Metal Jhacket 46
- 5 The Past, Uncorrected 68
- 6 Thirty Years of Prosperity for Every Fifteen Years of Hard Work 79
- 7 Yeti 93
- 8 How the Rebels Took Port Harcourt 102
- 9 Heightmap of Her Countenance 117
- 10 KraftMark 121
- 11 Walden Galleria Prayer 138.
- Notes:
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472120963
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/tfcp.13240730.0001.001
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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