Animal Truth and Other Stories / Sharona Muir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muir, Sharona, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Orleans, Louisiana : University of New Orleans Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Animal Truth and Other Stories is a collection of eco-fabulist tales in which adventures with fantastic animals and real science lead to metamorphoses of the heart. Familiar legends, from Faust and Oedipus to werewolves and time travel, appear in radically new ways: An artist obsessed with species extinction unwittingly summons a demonic double when he creates a "banquet" featuring a baked mermaid. A brilliant woman studying a rare fish makes a soul-shattering discovery about motherhood. A time-travelling billionaire escapes his modern life only to have his heart broken by a lovely creature in Earth's remote past. Each tale in this collection turns into gold the prickling straw of anxieties about our continued life on the planet. By turns playful, terrifying, haunting, and sensuous, these stories inspire wonder at the interwoven lives of human and nonhuman beings"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Menu: extinction

The bath of Venus

Animal truth

Bedcrumbs

The gifts of Chief Wang

The weredog.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781608012398

1608012395

OCLC:

1314119453