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Thirty-one stories view the orbiting earth and its unpredictable inhabitants through unexpected refractions of time, space, and perception, interweaving the fantastic and the commonplace in search of the sudden revelation
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Howard Melvin Fast (11 November 1914, New York City - 12 March 2003, Old Greenwich, Connecticut) was a Jewish American novelist and television writer, who wrote also under the pen names E. V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson.
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Separate 1st Printing. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; First Page of Front Matter Missing; Light Creasing on Front Cover; Moderate Creasing on Rear Cover, Spine; Front Cover, Spine Moderately Chipped; Rear Cover Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. A Brilliant Collection of Short Fiction from the Best-Selling Author of The Pledge and The Confessions of Joe Cullen. SUB-TITLE: 31 Zen Stories. CONTENTS: Introduction 1. UFO 2. The Hole in the Floor 3. General Hardy's Profession 4. Echinomastus Contentii 5. Tomorrow's Wall Street Journal 6. A Matter of Size 7. Show Cause 8. The Martian Shop 9. The Pragmatic Seed 10. The Trap 11. The Hoop 12. The Cold, Cold Box 13. The Talent of Harvey 14. The Wound 15. The General Zapped an Angel 16. The Price 17. The Vision of Milty Boil 18. Cato the Martian 19. Not with a Bang 20. The Movie House 21. Cephes 5 22. Of Time and Cats 23. The Interval 24. The Egg 25. The Insects 26. The Sight of Eden 27. The Mind of God 28. The Mohawk 29. The Mouse 30. The Large Ant 31. The Hunter. SYNOPSIS: Howard Fast's historical novels - Spartacus, Freedom Road, The Immigrants, The Pledge - have captured the hearts of readers for over three decades. Under the pen name of E. V. Cunningham, he is also a master of the mystery novel. But it is only in Howard Fast's short fiction that we truly experience the incredible range of his talent, his wit, his humor, and his imagination. This superb collection of 31 short works juxtaposes tales of the fantastic and the bizarre with stories touched by pathos and stirring emotion. In his two longest pieces, The Hunter and The Trap, Fast presents us with visions of hope and death. In such wryly funny stories as The Hoop and The General Zapped an Angel, he brings us satire filled with unexpected twists. Often playful and always multilayered, these are stories that will delight us with their wisdom . . . and entertain us with Fast's unmistakable storytelling genius. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # 002030
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