Author: Alissa Nutting
Year: 2010
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Short Stories, Fantasy, Horror, Humor
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9780984213320
0984213325 |
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Chosen by Ben Marcus as winner of the sixth Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction 'Alissa Nutting builds a dark catalog of behavior for her characters and the result is a kind of human bestiary, if humans were programmed to go down in flames, to run themselves aground, to seek ruin on every occasion. These fine stories, anthropologically thorough in their view of the contemporary person, illuminate how people hide behind their pursuits, concealing what matters most to them while striving, and usually failing, to be loved.' 'Ben Marcus, author of Notable American Women
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