Museum of the Weird (Paperback)


Winner of FC2's American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize

A monogrammed cube appears in your town. Your landlord cheats you out of first place in the annual Christmas decorating contest. You need to learn how to love and care for your mate--a paring knife. These situations and more reveal the wondrous play and surreal humor that make up the stories in Amelia Gray's stunning collection of stories: "Museum of the Weird".""

Acerbic wit and luminous prose mark these shorts, while sickness and death lurk amidst the humor. Characters find their footing in these bizarre scenarios and manage to fall into redemption and rebirth. "Museum of the Weird" invites you into its hallways, then beguiles, bewitches, and reveals a writer who has discovered a manner of storytelling all her own.


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Winner of FC2's American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize

A monogrammed cube appears in your town. Your landlord cheats you out of first place in the annual Christmas decorating contest. You need to learn how to love and care for your mate--a paring knife. These situations and more reveal the wondrous play and surreal humor that make up the stories in Amelia Gray's stunning collection of stories: "Museum of the Weird".""

Acerbic wit and luminous prose mark these shorts, while sickness and death lurk amidst the humor. Characters find their footing in these bizarre scenarios and manage to fall into redemption and rebirth. "Museum of the Weird" invites you into its hallways, then beguiles, bewitches, and reveals a writer who has discovered a manner of storytelling all her own.

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Product Details

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Imprint

Fiction Collective Two

Country of origin

United States

Release date

September 2010

Availability

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

First published

September 2010

Authors

Dimensions

216 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback

Pages

176

ISBN-13

978-1-57366-156-0

Barcode

9781573661560

Categories

LSN

1-57366-156-2



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