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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories by Kevin Wilson (English) Paperbac
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- ISBN-13
- 9780063041028
- Type
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- ISBN
- 9780063041028
- Book Title
- Tunneling to the Center Of the Earth : Stories
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Humorous / General
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 6.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0063041022
ISBN-13
9780063041028
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038281991
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tunneling to the Center Of the Earth : Stories
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
6.3 Oz
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Reviews
These superb, often audacious stories rework the ordinary into surreal yet hauntingly plausible worlds, and we emerge seeing ourselves with fresh, if somewhat nervous, clarity.", "Wilson's little time-bomb fables have a surrealist zip, like miniature Magritte paintings come to life." -- Washington Post "Geniously surreal but affecting short stories about spontaneous combustion, Scrabble and angst at all ages. RIYL (Read if you love): George Saunders." -- Louisville Courier Journal "Turns the genre of Southern fiction on its head...Wilson's fully realized characters keep the stories grounded." -- Bomb Magazine "A Southern writer with a bent sense of humor offers a fine debut collection of stories, some unlike anything you've read before. Wilson displays a marvelous sense of narrative ingenuity...Weird and wonderful stories from a writer who has that most elusive of gifts: new ideas." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Acute and uniformly unsettling, these fictions explore themes of loss and loneliness with fresh young insight, and occasionally with a faint rainbow at the end." -- Boston Globe "Kevin Wilson is the unholy child of George Saunders and Carson McCullers.... Jesus Christ is this guy good." -- Owen King "Kevin Wilson's stories show us a world that is both real and full of illusion...He forces us to look at our own lives in a new and slightly off-kilter way." -- Ann Patchett, bestselling author of BEL CANTO "I'm drawn to particular authors, folks like George Saunders and Stacey Richter and Kevin Wilson...who I know are going to kick my ass." -- Steve Almond, author of CANDYFREAK "Has some of the best writing I've seen in a long, long time. Kevin Wilson's stories not only tunnel to the center of the earth--they tunnel through the intricacies of family, love and the dark places of the human soul." -- Hannah Tinti, author of THE GOOD THIEF "His work shimmers...Wilson offers fabulous twists and somersaults of the imagination... As Wilson continues to dig into the texture and mystery of the world, his fiction should grow, like his best characters, in strange and remarkable ways." -- New York Times Book Review "To write such masterful stories takes a graceful eye, and, even more, a compassionate heart. Wilson has both. His disturbing, moving tales burrow their way under our skin and stay there." -- Time Out New York "Kevin Wilson writes fiction that moves so quickly from twisted hilarity to strange, delicate beauty that you might not notice--until it's too late--that your heart is good and broken. This collection is like the spontaneous combustion one story in it describes: urgent, amazing, and on fire." -- Alix Ohlin, author of THE MISSING PERSON and BABYLON AND OTHER STORIES "Kevin Wilson's brilliant debut is full of characters you won't be able to forget and wouldn't want to even if you could." -- Brock Clarke, bestselling author of AN ARSONIST'S GUIDE TO WRITERS' HOMES IN NEW ENGLAND These superb, often audacious stories rework the ordinary into surreal yet hauntingly plausible worlds, and we emerge seeing ourselves with fresh, if somewhat nervous, clarity." -- Ben Fountain, PEN/Hemingway award-winning author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara "There are 11 troubling, strange, offbeat tales in this collection... It's those sharp insights that keep you reading Wilson's unusual stories." -- The Advocate (Baton Rouge) "These short stories by Kevin Wilson...are weird in the best way. They are bizarre notions that are fleshed out in sustained narrative by a deft maestro...beautifully rendered." -- Memphis Commercial Appeal "Lush with imagination, humanity, and wit. -- TheRumpus.net
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