Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous experience not to be missed by those who love to explore the darker parts of the human psyche. Monsters, real and imagined, external and internal, are the subject. They are us and we are them and Ballingr
North American Lake Monsters: Stories
โ Scribed by Ballingrud, Nathan
- Publisher
- Small Beer Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-ca
- Weight
- 126 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1618730614
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โฆ Synopsis
""Nathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite short fiction writers.""?Jeff VanderMeer ""Nathan Ballingrud's 'The Way Station' is another story of the sort I've come to expect from him: emotionally intense, riveting, and deeply upsetting in many ways. It deals with loss, with the aftereffects of Katrina on a homeless alcoholic who's haunted by the city itself be-fore the flood, and in doing so it's wrenching. ... It's an excellent story that paints a riveting por-trait of a man, his city, and his loss.""?Tor.com on The Naked City ""But the two most remarkable stories i.;You Go Where It Takes You; Wild Acre; S.S.; The Crevasse; The Monsters of Heaven; Sunbleached; North American Lake Monsters; The Way Station; The Good Husband; Acknowledgments; Publication History; About the Author.
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