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Excuse me while I disappear : stories / Joanna Scott.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.C636 A6 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Joanna, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Speculative fiction.
- Storytelling--Fiction.
- Storytelling.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 212 ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Joanna Scott, the critically acclaimed author of ten novels and two collections, turns her “incandescent imagination” (Publishers Weekly) back to the craft of the short story, with breathtaking results. Ranging across history from the distant past to the future, Scott tours the many forms our stories can take, from cave wall paintings to radio banter to digitized archives, and the far-reaching consequences of our communications."--Publisher description.
- Contents:
- The limestone book
- Dreaming of fire
- The knowledge gallery
- Thank ye, Jim Bridger
- Principles of uncertainty
- The silver pearl
- The maverick
- Teardrop
- Infidels
- No one is available
- The palimpsest
- Excuse me while I disappear
- Absolute zero
- Somewhere in Germantown
- When drummers drum.
- ISBN:
- 0316498742
- 9780316498746
- OCLC:
- 1184233321
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