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Availability:In StockContributor:Kevin WilsonSeries:Art of the StoryPublish date:2020-09-01Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ecco PressISBN-13:9780063041028ISBN-10:63041022UPC:9780063041028Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, HumorousSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCG6WWD0WB

A debut short story collection in the tradition of writers like Kelly Link, Aimee Bender, and George Saunders--strange, imaginative, and refreshingly original--now back in print as part of Ecco's "Art of the Story" Series, and with a new introduction from the author


Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of the Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider--a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a story singled out by Ann Patchett for Ploughshares, a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted.

Southern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully inventive stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Ecco PressISBN-13:9780063041028ISBN-10:63041022UPC:9780063041028Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, HumorousSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCG6WWD0WB
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Kevin Wilson is the author of the novels The Family Fang, a New York Times bestseller adapted into an acclaimed film starring Nicole Kidman, and Perfect Little World, as well as the story collections Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, and Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife and two sons.

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