| Description |
1 online resource (172 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Babies; Waste; Unsolved Mystery; Dinner; A Javelina Story; The Darkness; The Cottage Cheese Diet; Death of a Beast; Thoughts While Strolling; Trip Advisory: The Boyhood Home of Former President Ronald Reagan; Code of Operation: Snake Farm; The Tortoise and the Hare; Fish; There Will Be Sense; Diary of the Blockage; The Cube; Love, Mortar; This Quiet Complex; Vultures; The Pit; The Picture Window; The Vanished; The Suitcase; The Movement. |
| Summary |
Winner of FC2's American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize A monogrammed cube appears in your town. Your landlord cheats you out of first place in the annual Christmas decorating contest. You need to learn how to love and care for your mate--a paring knife. These situations and more reveal the wondrous play and surreal humor that make up the stories in Amelia Gray's stunning collection of stories: Museum of the Weird. Acerbic wit and luminous prose mark these shorts, while sickness and death lurk amidst the humor. Characters find their footing in these bizarre sce. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Short stories.
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Short stories. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gray, Amelia, 1982- Amelia Gray's Museum of the weird. 1st ed. Tuscaloosa : FC2/University of Alabama Press, 2010 9781573661560 (DLC) 2009041859 (OCoLC)456977482 |
| ISBN |
9781573668187 (electronic book) |
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1573668184 (electronic book) |
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1573661562 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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9781573661560 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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