Indentation and Other Stories - Couverture rigide

Schall, Joe

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0814779174 ISBN 13 : 9780814779170

Editeur : New York University Press, 1990

Synopsis

Indentation and Other Stories is a collection of nine stories ranging from the wildly funny and idiosyncratic to the downright bizarre. The title story features a pathological dentist who seeks a quirky catharsis by decorating his apartment in hygienic dental paraphernalia. Other tales frolic through the lives of characters who border on the delightfully absurd: a woman, after going through menopause, struggles to recreate her menstrual periods by altering her diet; a former New York street reporter, fired because of his "ideals," aspires to become a credible street person and decides, tentatively, to have a religious experience; an English major turned psychologist writes a pseudoscientific "article"--complete with footnotes and a University of New Jersey cover letter--which argues, by example, for the use of figurative language in scientific journal writing. Other stories are more humanizing: "The Perils of Asthma" is a sympathetic lok at a twelve-year-old boy struggling to grow up amidst his perplexing asthma, his eccentric Catholic parents, and his mystifying quasi-erections. All of the stories are grounded in the allure of language, the luxuriance of detail, and the celebration of human compulsion and obsession.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The author, Joe Schall, is thirty-one years old and currently teaches fiction writing at Penn State University. While a student at Penn State, he studied under Paul West and Bob Downs. Schall's stories have been published in various journals, including The Macguffin, Flipside, and The Ligourian.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814779174
• ISBN 13: 9780814779170
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 182
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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