Four for a quarter : fictions / Michael Martone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martone, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : FC2/University of Alabama Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Four is the magic number in Michael Martone's Four for a Quarter. In subject-four fifth Beatles, four tie knots, four retellings of the first Xerox, even the sex lives of the Fantastic Four-and in structure-the book is separated into four sections, with each section further divided into four chapterettes-Four for a Quarter returns again and again to its originating number, making chaos comprehensible and mystery out of the most ordinary. </DIV

Contents:

Contents; One; Four for a Quarter; Diagnostic Drift; Four Fifth Beatles; 4H; Leap Years; Four Alabama Seasons; Ruminant; Four Postcards from Indiana; The I States; The Sex Life of the Fantastic Four; Four Brief Lives; Two; Dutch Boy; Four in Hand; Antebellum; Four Found Postcard Captions; Quadratic; Four Men in Uniform; Board Games; The First Four Deaths in My High School Class; Four Foursquare Houses; To Hell and Back: Four Takes; 4 GS-14s; Three; Tessera; Four Corners; The Blind: A Blues; Four Ironies; Harmonic Postcard Captions

The Production of the First Xerographic Copy, Recounted by Chester Carlson, Its InventorRPM; The Third Day of Trials; The Deaths of Modern Philosophers; Four Susans; Four; Four Dead in Ohio; The Four Sides of a Triangle: Proof; FAQs; Four Eyes; Mount Rushmore; Chili 4-Way; Four Fourths; Four Signs; Thought Balloons; Four Places; Four Calling Birds; Author's Notes; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-57366-827-3

OCLC:

772845458