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Greetings from Earth: New and Collected Stories
| Author: | Scott Bradfield |
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Picador, 1993 |
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| Book Type: | Novel |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction / Fantasy |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Slipstream Contemporary Fantasy Magical Realism |
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Synopsis
In these provocative, inventive fictions, we encounter a man who dreams of himself as an Arctic wolf, a creature that slowly makes its way into the waking world; a hostile housewife who cultivates out-of-body experiences and imagines how her existence might serve as the basis for a movie starring Jessica Lange; and an autistic child for whom the world and words are the same thing, equally solid and equally malleable. Bradfield's stories are psychologically compelling and hilarious, particularly when he mixes the supernatural with the mundane. Each one of these twenty-one stories demonstrates his singularly rich language and imagination.
Table of Contents:
- 1 - The Dream of the Wolf
- 25 - The Darling
- 43 - Sweet Ladies, Good Night, Good Night
- 53 - The Wind Box
- 71 - Closer to You
- 80 - The Last Man That Time
- 90 - Didn't She Know
- 102 - In the Time of the Great Dying
- 108 - Ghost Guessed
- 120 - Dazzle
- 133 - White Lamp
- 145 - Hey Hey Hey
- 175 - The Other Man
- 184 - The Promise
- 197 - The Flash! Kid
- 209 - The Monster
- 220 - Greetings from Earth
- 232 - Unmistakably the Finest
- 252 - Diary of a Forgotten Transcendentalist
- 264 - The Secret Life of Houses
- 284 - The Parakeet and the Cat
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