Leaving the sea : stories
Title:
Leaving the sea : stories
Author:
Publication Date as Range:
2014
ISBN:
9780307379382
9780307739988
Uniform Title:
Short stories. Selections
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
vii, 273 pages ; 25 cm
General Note:
"This is a Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.
Selected stories were previously published (2000-2013)
Contents:
1. What have you done? -- I can say many nice things -- The dark arts -- Rollingwood -- 2. On not growing up -- My views on the darkness -- 3. Watching mysteries with my mother -- The loyalty protocol -- 4. The father costume -- 5. First love -- Fear the morning -- Origins of the family -- Against attachment -- Leaving the sea -- 6. The moors.
Abstract:
A collection of life-affirming tales includes the dystopian "Rollingwood, " in which a divorced father struggles with employment while caring for an ailing infant; and the title story, in which a narrator's marriage and sanity unravel in a single breathless sentence.
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