Book
The dead fish museum
Alfred A. Knopf
2006
Abstract
"Each of these eight burnished, terrifying, masterfully crafted stories is set against a landscape that is both deeply American and unmistakably universal. A son confronts his father's madness and his own hunger for connection on a misguided hike in the Pacific Northwest. A screenwriter fights for his sanity in the bleak corridors of a Manhattan psych ward while lusting after a ballerina who sets herself ablaze. A Thanksgiving hunting trip in Northern Michigan becomes the scene of a haunting reckoning with marital infidelity and desperation. And in the magnificent title story, carpenters building sets for a porn movie drift dreamily beneath a surface of sexual tension toward a racial violence they will never fully comprehend. Taking place in remote cabins, asylums, Indian reservations, the backloads of Iowa and the streets of Seattle, this collection of stories, as muscular and challenging as the best novels, is about people who have been orphaned, who have lost connection, and who have exhausted the ability to generate meaning in their lives. Yet in the midst of lacerating difficulty, the sensibility at work in these fictions boldly insists on the enduring power of love."--Publisher's description.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The dead fish museum
- Creators
- Charles D'Ambrosio - University of Iowa, Creative Writing
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf; New York
- ISBN
- 1400042860; 9781400042869
- eISBN
- 9780307264732; 0307264734
- Number of pages
- 236 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2006
- Academic Unit
- Creative Writing
- Record Identifier
- 9983995877102771
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