Universal love : stories / Alexander Weinstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinstein, Alexander, author.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fantasy fiction, American--21st century.

Fantasy fiction, American.

Short stories, American--21st century.

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Fiction.

Science fiction.

Short stories, American.

Fantasy fiction, American.

Physical Description:

224 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Henry Holt and Company, 2020.

Summary:

"Universal Love welcomes readers to a near-future world where our everyday technologies have fundamentally altered the possibilities and limits of how we love one another. In these gripping stories, a young boy tries to understand what keeps his father tethered to the drowned city they call home. A daughter gets to know her dead mother's hologram better than she ever knew her living mother. And, at a time when unpleasant memories can be erased, a man undergoes electronic surgery to have his depression, and his past, forever removed. In an age when technology offers the easiest cures for loneliness, these characters must wrestle with what it means to stay human in an increasingly cybernetic future, and how love can endure even the most alluring upgrades. In the vein of Weinstein's critically-acclaimed first collection, Universal Love is a visionary book, written with one foot in the real world and one stepping bravely into the future"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The year of nostalgia

Beijing

Comfort porn

We only wanted their happiness

Purple Heart

True love testimonials

Childhood

Sanctuary

Infinite realities

Mountain song

Islanders.

Other Format:

Online version: Weinstein, Alexander, Universal love

ISBN:

9781250144355

1250144353

OCLC:

1099207915