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Chemical valley : stories / David Huebert.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.H795 C44 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huebert, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, Canadian--21st century.
- Short stories, Canadian.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Short stories, Canadian.
- Physical Description:
- 231 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2021]
- Summary:
- "From city-dwelling preppers to long term care nurses, dishwashers to professional hockey enforcers to refinery workers, Chemical Valley's caring and carefully-wrought stories cultivate rich human emotional worlds in all the dankness of our bio-chemical animacy. Full-hearted, laced throughout with bruised optimism and sincere appreciation of the profound beauty of our wilted, wheezing world, Chemical Valley does not shy away from urgent modern questions--the distribution of toxicity, environmental racism, the future of technology, the climate, and the human body--but it grounds these anxieties in vivid and often humorous intricacies of its characters' lives. These are stories about big questions, but they are not scared of sentiment. Swamp-wrought, they run wild with vital energy, tilt and teeter into crazed and delirious loves. Contemporary issues: climate crisis, social justice, 21st century alienation. The characters in these stories are struggling with feelings of dislocation and exile from their natural and social worlds: a man struggling to care for the environment and his dying girlfriend while still working at a power plant that's polluting his city. Genre: Huebert's stories engage with the ecological world in surprising ways, expressing wonder at the world around us, dismay at its destruction, and using that world as a metaphor for humanity's own floundering, a new genre of ecological/climate fiction he conceives of as 'dirty nature writing.'"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Chemical Valley
- Chemical Valley
- Leviathan
- Swamp Things
- Oligarchs
- Cruelty
- Dream Haven
- Six Six Two Fifty
- Desert of the RL
- SHTF
- The Pit
- The Empathy Pill.
- Notes:
- Short stories.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Huebert, David. Chemical valley.
- ISBN:
- 9781771964470
- 1771964472
- OCLC:
- 1240576607
- Publisher Number:
- 99989053689
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