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Paperback. Condition: Good. Harrowing short stories that range from horror to humor; Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it. …

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Harrowing short stories that range from horror to humor; Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it. …

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Paperback. Condition: New. Harrowing short stories that range from horror to humor; Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it. In the title story an obsessive consciousness folds back on itself, creating a vertiginous melange of Poe and Borges, both horrific and metaphysical. Here, as in ""Moran's Mexico,"" and ""Greenhouse,"" the solitary nature of reading and writing leads characters beyond human limits, making the act of putting words to paper a monstrous violation opening onto madness. In ""White Square"" the representation of humans by dimly colored shapes confirms our feeling that something lies behind these words, while seeming to mock us with the futility of seeking it. Evenson's enigmatic names - Thurm, Bein, Hatcher, Burlun - placeable landscapes, and barren rooms all combine to create a semblance of conceptual abstraction, as though the material universe had come to exist inside someone's head. Small wonder that Evenson's work has attracted so much attention among philosophers, literary critics, and other speculative intelligences, for it continuously projects a tantalizing absence, as though there were some key or code that, if only we knew it, would illuminate everything. However, the blade of discernment wavers, and we are left to our own groping interpretations. …

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Harrowing short stories that range from horror to humor; Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it. In the title story an obsessive consciousness folds back on itself, creating a vertiginous melange of Poe and Borges, both horrific and metaphysical. Here, as in "Moran's Mexico," and "Greenhouse," the solitary nature of reading and writing leads characters beyond human limits, making the act of putting words to paper a monstrous violation opening onto madness. In "White Square" the representation of humans by dimly colored shapes confirms our feeling that something lies behind these words, while seeming to mock us with the futility of seeking it. Evenson's enigmatic names - Thurm, Bein, Hatcher, Burlun - placeable landscapes, and barren rooms all combine to create a semblance of conceptual abstraction, as though the material universe had come to exist inside someone's head. Small wonder that Evenson's work has attracted so much attention amo Harrowing short stories that range from horror to humor; Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Condition: New. Harrowing short stories that range from horror to humor; Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249. . 2004. 3rd Edition. Paperback. . . . .…

Condition: New. Harrowing short stories that range from horror to humor; Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249. . 2004. 3rd Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; 637 p. ; 23 cm. ; LCCN 2006000487 ; ISBN 9781890650186, 1890650188 OCLC 62888967 ; LC PR1309.S5 P37 2006 Dewey 823/.0108 ; color illustrated stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Introduction / Rikki Ducornet --Lionflower hedge / Ira Sher -- Son of Chimera / Leena Krohn -- Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe / Angela Carter -- Ever and anon / Kate Kasten -- Lithia Park / William Luvaas -- Third Jungle Book : A Mowgli story / Michael Moorcock -- White girl / Maureen N. McLane -- Lucky strike / Kim Stanley Robinson -- Third initiation: A gift from the land of dreams / Mary Mackey -- Side effects / Janice Law -- Concert pianist's flight / Carole Rosenthal -- Making faces / Stephen Shugart -- Town news / Justin Courter -- Midnight lover / Carol Schwalberg -- Night reconnaissance / Tom La Farge -- Short-term Memorial Park / Shelley Jackson -- Magnificent carp of Hichi Street / Paul Pekin -- Tears of Niobe / L. Timmel Duchamp -- Lettuce / Rikki Ducornet -- Night of love's last dance / Randall Silvis -- Five letters from an Eastern Empire / Alasdair Gray -- Beginnings, endings, and middles ball / Anna Tambour -- Jack Kerouac disembodied school of poetics / Rudy Rucker -- Nobody's home / Ira Sher -- Ice cream vendor / Leena Krohn -- Jubilee dreams / Karen Heuler -- An accounting / Brian Evenson -- Armegedn, or The end of the word / K. Bannerman -- Gardener of heart / Bradford Morrow -- Maryolatry / Laura Moriarty -- Cloud room / Kevin W. Reardon -- Tree / Noelle Sickels -- Nobody walks in London / Terry Gates-Grimwood -- Tiger's eye / Gladys Swan -- Skunk / Justin Courter -- Old flames in new bottles / Michael Andre-Driussi -- Power couple, or love never sleeps / Charlie Anders -- Who's there? / Rikki Ducornet -- Secret paths of Rajan Khanna / Jeff VanderMeer -- Dream catcher / Mercedes Sanchez -- B, Longing / Robin Caton -- Three tales / Laird Hunt -- About the Henbane City / Leena Krohn -- Losing the war / Stepan Chapman -- Flowers / Mark Wallace -- White man / Jeffrey Ford -- Finding the words / Michael Constance -- English/History / Laura Mullen -- Birthday of the world / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Cake / Michael Moorcock. ; Exploring the porous boundary between mainstream literary fiction and the genres of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi, this collection of short stories juxtaposes the conventional and the fabulist--with dazzling results. In Rikki Ducornet's "Lettuce," a petitioner in a futuristic totalitarian state pays with his life when he requests permission to grow lettuce; "Birthday of the World," by Ursula K. Le Guin, is narrated by a woman whose brother destroys their culture when he decides he wants to.; FINE. Book.…

Condition: New. Harrowing short stories that range from horror to humor Brian Evenson s fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Harrowing short stories that range from horror to humor; Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it. In the title story an obsessive consciousness folds back on itself, creating a vertiginous melange of Poe and Borges, both horrific and metaphysical. Here, as in "Moran's Mexico," and "Greenhouse," the solitary nature of reading and writing leads characters beyond human limits, making the act of putting words to paper a monstrous violation opening onto madness. In "White Square" the representation of humans by dimly colored shapes confirms our feeling that something lies behind these words, while seeming to mock us with the futility of seeking it. Evenson's enigmatic names - Thurm, Bein, Hatcher, Burlun - placeable landscapes, and barren rooms all combine to create a semblance of conceptual abstraction, as though the material universe had come to exist inside someone's head. Small wonder that Evenson's work has attracted so much attention amo Harrowing short stories that range from horror to humor; Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Harrowing short stories that range from horror to humor; Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it. In the title story an obsessive consciousness folds back on itself, creating a vertiginous melange of Poe and Borges, both horrific and metaphysical. Here, as in ""Moran's Mexico,"" and ""Greenhouse,"" the solitary nature of reading and writing leads characters beyond human limits, making the act of putting words to paper a monstrous violation opening onto madness. In ""White Square"" the representation of humans by dimly colored shapes confirms our feeling that something lies behind these words, while seeming to mock us with the futility of seeking it. Evenson's enigmatic names - Thurm, Bein, Hatcher, Burlun - placeable landscapes, and barren rooms all combine to create a semblance of conceptual abstraction, as though the material universe had come to exist inside someone's head. Small wonder that Evenson's work has attracted so much attention among philosophers, literary critics, and other speculative intelligences, for it continuously projects a tantalizing absence, as though there were some key or code that, if only we knew it, would illuminate everything. However, the blade of discernment wavers, and we are left to our own groping interpretations. …