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- What Are You Afraid Of?
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: University of North Texas Press
summary
Powerful and haunting, the ten stories of this debut collection imagine a world where dreams and reality merge, often with dangerous consequences. Michael Hyde explores the relationships between illusion and reality, delusion and clarity, as his characters come to realize that the revelations they wholeheartedly pursue are often not the ones that await them and will move them. A teenage girl obsessed with the death of a classmate hopes to become the killer's next victim, a wayward graveyard attendant punishes the dead for his punishments in life, and a ghostly vision in a garden shed offers a catalyst for one woman's change. "Michael Hyde’s stories are strangely satisfying and satisfyingly strange. They combine the gothic sensibility of Flannery O’Connor and the restrained prose of Raymond Carver. These are tales of love-in-extremis. They should be taken as a tonic before bedtime, to stir up our dreams and awaken our compassion."—Sharon Oard Warner, judge, author of Learning to Dance and Deep in the Heart
Table of Contents
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- acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- her hollywood
- pp. 1-14
- people’s choice
- pp. 15-37
- the clay is vile
- pp. 38-60
- miracle-gro
- pp. 81-98
- everything valuable and portable
- pp. 117-129
- what are you afraid of?
- pp. 130-148
- second-hand
- pp. 149-155
- life among the bulrushes
- pp. 156-172
Additional Information
ISBN
9781574414844
Related ISBN(s)
9781574412017
MARC Record
OCLC
793511115
Pages
184
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No