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- Survival House
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: Texas A&M University Press
summary
Often humorous, always resonant, the ten stories in Survival House not only look back to the collective mind of doom in the atomic age of the 1950s and 1960s, but also address its legacy in our time—the emergence of new nuclear powers, polarizing politics, and the ever-tightening grip of corporations. In contemporary stories, such as “Doom Town,” a festival annually celebrates the survival of the human race by conducting riotous air raids. In “The Trans-Siberian Railway Comes to Whitehouse,” a bar owner desperately clings to a new all-things-Russian theme to save himself from financial ruin. Other stories, set in the 1960s, recast the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy assassination, and Space Race in personal histories of the human heart that remind us what it takes to endure—both then, and now.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-vi
- Acknowledgements
- pp. vii-viii
- The Big Healy
- pp. 43-64
- Commie Christmas
- pp. 65-75
- A Kind of Tender Infinity
- pp. 76-87
- We Wandered Ourselves Back to One
- pp. 88-100
- Survival House
- pp. 101-113
- Story of a Postcard
- pp. 114-123
- Cherry Pie
- pp. 124-134
- The World is Ending Yesterday
- pp. 135-148
Additional Information
ISBN
9781622882083
Related ISBN(s)
9781622881895
MARC Record
OCLC
1042561279
Pages
130
Launched on MUSE
2018-12-18
Language
English
Open Access
No