| Bang Crunch Contributor(s): Smith, Neil (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307386104 ISBN-13: 9780307386106 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2008 Annotation: A remarkable new voice debuts in this brilliantly quirky collection, ranging from tales about fluorescent guinea pigs and sentient gloves to wistful widows and sly performance artists. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage Originals |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.26" W x 8" (0.56 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Neil Smith's nine stories, average people find themselves in decidedly unusual situations, as the mundane and the fantastic collide. A woman mourning the loss of her husband finds solace in talking to his ashes, entombed in a curling stone. The title story zeroes in on a girl with Fred Hoyle syndrome, whose age expands and contracts like the universe. The members of a support group for people with benign tumors begin to suspect that their meekness has caused their medical woes. Bang Crunch creates an extraordinary world inhabited by all-too-human characters, and heralds the arrival of a literary talent with an unfailing, exacting concern for the profundities of our lives. |