Date of Disappearance
Author | : M. Allen Cunningham |
Publisher | : Atelier26 Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-04-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 0989302377 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780989302371 |
Rating | : 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Download or read book Date of Disappearance written by M. Allen Cunningham and published by Atelier26 Books. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painting modern America in saturated colors, this collection of short stories explores the passions and compulsions at the core of our national identity: those qualities that propel us forward or hold us back; that make us strangers to ourselves and others even while we pine for connection; the ways we cope with the inescapable enormity of our nation's geography. A marlin swims circles in a luminous backyard pool; a small-town surgeon broods from the Olympus of his hilltop house, watched all the while by his neighbors below; a knife salesman plies blades of mythic sharpness while crisscrossing a crazed North American landscape like a mad Paul Bunyan; a young man in rural Arkansas nestles into a satellite dish; and a grandfather's body lies in state amid Annie Oakley's last buffalo kill, General Patton's Persian rug, and countless other oddments of a legendary America. Phenomenally imaginative, skewed, and hyperbolical, these stories are honed to cut through the blur of our times.