Full name: Getting It in the Head: Stories

Author: Mike McCormack Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780805053715 0805053719

In stories like "A Is for Axe, " "Dead Man's Fuel, " "The Stained Glass Violations, " "Amor Vincit Omnia, " and the dazzling title piece, McCormack shows a mesmerizing range and dark-hued, neo-Gothic vision. Set in various locations, from New York to the west coast of Ireland to the nameless realms of the imagination, his stories conjure a world where beautiful but deranged kids make lethal bombs, where talented sculptors spend their careers dismembering themselves in pursuit of their art, where wasters ris up with axes and turn into patricides. "Getting It in the Head" is a brilliant, bracing tour de force. Similar books: Just an Ordinary Day by Shirley Jackson A Fanatic Heart by Edna O'Brien The Collector of Hearts by Joyce Carol Oates Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson Going Away Shoes by Jill McCorkle The Assignation by Joyce Carol Oates Hot Pink by Adam Levin Ideas of Heaven by Joan Silber How It Ended by Jay McInerney Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor The Art of Living by John Gardner Fishing the Sloe-Black River by Colum McCann Werewolves in Their Youth by Michael Chabon The Safety of Objects by A. M. Homes Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau