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Big bad : stories / Whitney Collins.

Van Pelt Library PS3603.O45633 B55 2021
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Collins, Whitney, MFA, author.
Contributor:
Local Philadelphia : A Novel Idea Bookstore Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Short stories.
Genre:
Short stories.
Fiction.
Physical Description:
173 pages ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:
Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books, [2021]
Summary:
"Big Bad's thirteen enchanting stories lure readers into a dark wood where the mundane collides with the mysterious and the comedic merges with the catastrophic. Categorized as "domestic horror" and "flyover gothic," Collins's tales blend magic realism with real-world predicaments and feature underdogs tackling spiritual dilemmas in unremarkable locales: cheap motels, nail salons, tiki bars. From a widower who kills a horse en route to his grandson's circumcision to a mother who morphs into a giant clam to avoid domesticity, all of Big Bad's characters must repeatedly choose to fight or flee the big, bad wolf within. Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, and boasting a 2020 Pushcart Prizewinner, Big Bad simultaneously entertains and disconcerts"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: The Nest
Sunday
Big Bad
Drawers
The Entertainer
Daddy-O
The Pupil
Stone Fruit
Three Couches
Lonelyhearts
Good Guys
The Horse Lamp
Bjorn.
Other Format:
Online version: Collins, Whitney, MFA. Big bad
ISBN:
9781946448729
1946448729
OCLC:
1144094146

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