Raised in captivity : fictional nonfiction / Chuck Klosterman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klosterman, Chuck, 1972- author.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

Life change events--Fiction.

Life change events.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

307 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Press, 2019.

Summary:

"A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song 'Blizzard of Summer' becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why reality is mathematically unraveling. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian's rabies vaccination."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Raised in captivity

Execute again

Toxic actuality

How can this be the place?

The truth about food

Every day just comes and goes

Blizzard of summer

Of course it is

Skin

The perfect kind of friend

Cat person

Experience music project

Pain is a concept by which we measure our god

What about the children

(An excerpt from) a life that wasn't mine

Not that kind of person

Rhinoceros

The enemy within

The secret

Trial and error

Tricks aren't illusions

Fluke

If something is free the product is you

Never look at your phone

Reality apathy

Reasonable apprehension

Just asking questions

To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is not to die, except that it actually is

Tell don't show

Slang of ages

Slow pop

[ ]

I get it now

The power of other people.

Other Format:

Online version: Klosterman, Chuck, 1972- author. Raised in captivity

ISBN:

9780735217928

0735217920

OCLC:

1056203638