Unsettling - Softcover

Peter Rock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849822182 ISBN 13: 9781849822183

Publisher: M P Publishing Limited (1 Jan 2006), 2006

Synopsis

A stunning, 'Poe-esque' collection of short fiction about outsiders, lost dogs, romance, and life’s surprising mysteries. Populated by strangers, ghosts, and other shadowy figures, the thirteen stories in 'The Unsettling' attend to those startling moments when what we have understood as familiar is suddenly revealed as mysterious and foreign. A lonely man saving library books from an outbreak of mold listens to a coworker’s tale about a blind woman and imbues it with his own sense of romance; a woman drives a Gold Firebird through the desert with a television playing 'Rockford Files' reruns on the passenger seat; and a girl returns to her childhood home to spy on its new inhabitants, not realizing they are aware of her surveillance. Told through Rock’s imaginative and wholly original voice, these are haunted tales about fascination, transformation, and the relationship between the two.

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From the Inside Flap

"This book, which is maybe the best short story collection I’ve ever read, messed up my life. For days I wandered around thinking about the impossible stories and the everyday heartbreak that this collection brings, and everything I looked at seemed utterly and gorgeously rearranged by Peter Rock. Now it’s your turn." – Daniel Handler, author of the Lemony Snicket series

"These thirteen stories are moving, funny, haunting and – what's best – uncanny in their power to linger, filled with memorable characters and vivid events that will shadow you long after you think you've finished the book. Peter Rock is one of the most talented writers around, and The Unsettling is an experience you don't want to miss." – Dan Chaon, author of You Remind Me of Me and Among the Missing

About the Author

Peter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City. His most recent novel is "The Shelter Cycle" (978-0544289635). He is also the author of the novels "My Abandonment" (978-0156035521), "This Is the Place" (978-0385485982), "Carnival Wolves" (978-0385492096) "The Bewildered," and "The Ambidextrist," and a story collection, "The Unsettling." Rock attended Deep Springs College, received a BA in English from Yale University, and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He has taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Deep Springs College, and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. His stories and freelance writing have both appeared and been anthologized widely, and his books published in various countries and languages. The recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, an Alex Award and others, he currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where he is a Professor in the English Department of Reed College. His YA novel "Klickitat" will be published in 2016 and his novel-within-photographs, "Spells," will be shown at Blue Sky Gallery in 2015 and published as a book sometime in the future.
Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection "Windeye" (Coffee House Press 2012) and the novel "Immobility" (Tor 2012), both of which were finalists for a Shirley Jackson Award. His novel "Last Days" won the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel of 2009). His novel "The Open Curtain" (Coffee House Press) was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild Award. Other books include "The Wavering Knife" (which won the IHG Award for best story collection), "Dark Property," and "Altmann's Tongue." He has translated work by Christian Gailly, Jean Fremon, Claro, Jacques Jouet, Eric Chevillard, Antoine Volodine, Manuela Draeger, David B., and others. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship. His work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Slovenian. He lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he is Royce Professor of Teaching Excellence in Brown University's Literary Arts Department.
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Edition details

• Publisher: M P Publishing Limited (1 Jan 2006)
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849822182
• ISBN 13: 9781849822183
• Binding: Paperback