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- The Amazing Mr. Morality: Stories
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: West Virginia University Press
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Eric Hoffer Award, 1st Runner-Up, Short Story/Anthology category
The Amazing Mr. Morality features tenacious men and women whose determination to buck middle-class social convention draws them toward unforeseen challenges. A failed television producer insists upon having a woodchuck relocated from his lawn, only to receive desperate letters in which the woodchuck begs to return. An overconfident ne’er-do-well obtains a lucrative lecture invitation intended for a renowned ornithologist and decides to deliver the speech himself. An innocuous dispute over whether to rename a local street opens up racial fault lines that prove deadly.
The collection concludes with the title novella in which two unscrupulous ethicists, writing rival newspaper columns, seek to unseat each other by addressing questions such as: If you’re going to commit a murder, is it worse to kill when the victim is sleeping or awake?
Table of Contents
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- The Children's Lottery
- pp. 1-13
- Jury of Matrons
- pp. 14-30
- Gable's Whiskers
- pp. 31-42
- Burrowing in Exile
- pp. 43-59
- Tracking Harold Lloyd
- pp. 60-69
- Next of Kith
- pp. 70-87
- Right of Way
- pp. 88-107
- A Change of Plumage
- pp. 108-124
- The Desecration at Lemming Bay
- pp. 125-138
- The Amazing Mr. Morality
- pp. 139-183
- About the Author
- p. 184
Additional Information
ISBN
9781946684066
Related ISBN(s)
9781946684042, 9781946684059
MARC Record
OCLC
1019651528
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-18
Language
English
Open Access
No