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The University of Alabama Press
- Light without Heat: Stories
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
summary
Matthew Kirkpatrick’s debut, Light without Heat, is an inventive, surprising collection of short stories full of odd, marginal characters rendered with surreal humor and lyrical, often beautiful language.
Formally playful, these stories take the shape of biographies, instructions, glossaries, and diagrams, all ultimately in the service of depicting characters with emotional intensity.
Stories in the collection explore the flawed nature of memory, workplace malaise, the isolation of home, and the last throes of ending love. No two stories in Light without Heat are the same, yet all of them work toward sharing human experience in new, innovative ways.
Table of Contents
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- Cover Page
- p. 1
- Title Page
- pp. 2-7
- Different Distances
- pp. 1-12
- Instructions
- pp. 13-14
- Light Without
- pp. 15-38
- Pennsylvania
- pp. 39-40
- The Saddening
- pp. 41-46
- Crystal Castles
- pp. 47-60
- Pineal Gland
- pp. 61-62
- Throw Him in the Water
- pp. 63-76
- The Celebrations
- pp. 79-92
- The Most Amazing Attic
- pp. 93-96
- Animal Attacks
- pp. 113-114
- The Board Game Monopoly
- pp. 123-140
- The Sodding
- pp. 141-142
- Some Kirkpatricks
- pp. 153-174
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 175-176
Additional Information
ISBN
9781573668309
Related ISBN(s)
9781573661669
MARC Record
OCLC
779492762
Pages
186
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2012