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- Carbine: Stories
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Massachusetts Press
- Series: Juniper Prize for Fiction
summary
Inhabiting a world that offers no guarantee of any veracity, the characters in these peculiar stories are driven to and goaded by compulsive and perhaps pointless reflection. They are haunted by unrelenting consciousness and knowledge of failure, yet are, at best, ambivalent toward any conventional equation of success. Theirs is a world of broken relationships, futile memory, constant appetite, and the certain knowledge that they are winding down in a culture in which it is impossible to do—or know—the right thing. Frustrated and obsessed, they cannot articulate their lives and are entranced by the strangeness of the everyday.
Written with keen intelligence and biting humor, Carbine is a book about the ridiculousness of contemporary life—a book about what cannot be said.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- My 40th Birthday Party
- pp. 25-28
- Communication
- pp. 29-30
- The Bottle Game
- pp. 31-33
- Catch and Release
- pp. 39-43
- Architecture of the French Novel
- pp. 73-97
- The Hungarian Writer
- p. 111
- The Descent of Value
- pp. 118-120
- Museum Piece
- pp. 137-138
- Epistemology
- p. 139
- Picture Show
- pp. 158-180
Additional Information
ISBN
9781613760314
Related ISBN(s)
9781558498181
MARC Record
OCLC
794700480
Pages
176
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No