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Miniature Wife : And Other Stories by Manuel Gonzales (2013, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-101594486042
ISBN-139781594486043
eBay Product ID (ePID)152203344
Product Key Features
Book TitleMiniature Wife : and Other Stories
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year2013
GenreFiction
AuthorManuel Gonzales
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight15.2 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2012-026167
Reviews"These stories are wrought with forceful clarity, Borgesian inventiveness and enchanting, devious wit-an unforgettable debut from a uniquely gifted writer." Wells Tower, author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned "These are beautiful, strange truths-mad, weird, funny and unforgettable. Manuel Gonzales possesses a brand new American literary voice. This is vital work from an exciting new writer." -Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet "This book has everything you could ask for in a collection, and even things you hadn't thought to ask for, but secretly wanted: unicorns, mobsters, swamp monsters and werewolves. Manuel Gonzales weaves the supernatural into the lives of everyday citizens, from anthropologists to airline passengers, and the result is pure magic mixed with humor and deep humanity." Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief "You know that feeling you get when you pick up a book and realize you are hearing a voice you have never heard before but will be hearing for a long time? I had that feeling on page 5. Please pick up this book - you will have that feeling. Dark, smart and strange in a way that initially had me grasping for comparison but that ultimately revealed itself to be something new." -Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe "Manuel Gonzales's The Miniature Wife is a marvel-a beautiful, hilarious and moving reinvention of the gothic, a testimony to the sublime powers of the imagination and language. This a book of extraordinary joy, compassion, horror and grace all rolled into one." -Dinaw Mengestu, author of How to Read the Air and The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears "Gonzales' voice is so new and different and dazzling that you won't be able to put down his book."- Marie Claire "The stories are written so believably, they handle the strange and surreal so carefully, that you want to believe the impossible is possible."- Tin House "wildly imaginative, at times surreal, and always captivating… Gonzales creates these bizarre scenarios that are so utterly believable you forget how impossible they actually are. There is an intelligent economy to his prose throughout the collection and I was thrilled by the originality of his ideas and how they were rendered." -Roxanne Gay, The Rumpus "deeply imaginative… . With commendable skill, Gonzales seamlessly blends the real and the fantastic, resulting in a fun and provocative collection that readers will want to devour." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "rife with ingenuity and beholden to few rules…Delightfully eerie tales from the dark side." - Kirkus Reviews, "These stories are wrought with forceful clarity, Borgesian inventiveness and enchanting, devious wit-an unforgettable debut from a uniquely gifted writer." Wells Tower, author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned "These are beautiful, strange truths-mad, weird, funny and unforgettable. Manuel Gonzales possesses a brand new American literary voice. This is vital work from an exciting new writer." -Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet "This book has everything you could ask for in a collection, and even things you hadn't thought to ask for, but secretly wanted: unicorns, mobsters, swamp monsters and werewolves. Manuel Gonzales weaves the supernatural into the lives of everyday citizens, from anthropologists to airline passengers, and the result is pure magic mixed with humor and deep humanity." Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief "You know that feeling you get when you pick up a book and realize you are hearing a voice you have never heard before but will be hearing for a long time? I had that feeling on page 5. Please pick up this book - you will have that feeling. Dark, smart and strange in a way that initially had me grasping for comparison but that ultimately revealed itself to be something new." -Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe "Manuel Gonzales's The Miniature Wife is a marvel-a beautiful, hilarious and moving reinvention of the gothic, a testimony to the sublime powers of the imagination and language. This a book of extraordinary joy, compassion, horror and grace all rolled into one." -Dinaw Mengestu, author of How to Read the Air and The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, "These stories are wrought with forceful clarity, Borgesian inventiveness and enchanting, devious wit-an unforgettable debut from a uniquely gifted writer." Wells Tower, author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned "This book has everything you could ask for in a collection, and even things you hadn't thought to ask for, but secretly wanted: unicorns, mobsters, swamp monsters and werewolves. Manuel Gonzales weaves the supernatural into the lives of everyday citizens, from anthropologists to airline passengers, and the result is pure magic mixed with humor and deep humanity." Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief "You know that feeling you get when you pick up a book and realize you are hearing a voice you have never heard before but will be hearing for a long time? I had that feeling on page 5. Please pick up this book - you will have that feeling. Dark, smart and strange in a way that initially had me grasping for comparison but that ultimately revealed itself to be something new." -Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe "Manuel Gonzales's The Miniature Wife is a marvel-a beautiful, hilarious and moving reinvention of the gothic, a testimony to the sublime powers of the imagination and language. This a book of extraordinary joy, compassion, horror and grace all rolled into one." -Dinaw Mengestu, author of How to Read the Air and The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal813/.6
SynopsisIn the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles an ordinary world marked by unusual phenomena. The eighteen stories of Manuel Gonzales's exhilarating first book render the fantastic commonplace and the ordinary extraordinary, in prose that thrums with energy and shimmers with beauty. In "The Artist's Voice" we meet one of the world's foremost composers, a man who speaks through his ears. A hijacked plane circles a city for twenty years in "Pilot, Copilot, Writer." Sound can kill in "The Sounds of Early Morning." And, in the title story, a man is at war with the wife he accidentally shrank. For these characters, the phenomenal isn't necessarily special--but it's often dangerous. In slightly fantastical settings, Gonzales illustrates very real guilt over small and large marital missteps, the intense desire for the reinvention of self, and the powerful urges we feel to defend and provide for the people we love. With wit and insight, these stories subvert our expectations and challenge us to look at our surroundings with fresh eyes. Brilliantly conceived, strikingly original, and told with the narrative instinct of a born storyteller, The Miniature Wife is an unforgettable debut.
LC Classification NumberPS3607.O56227M56
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