Tough Day for the Army: Stories

✍ Scribed by Warner, John

• Book ID: 108657827
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 116 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780807158029

✦ Synopsis

The stories in John Warner's Tough Day for the Army move from hilarious and biting to unsettling and sad-sometimes within the span of a few pages. Mining the absurdities, confusions, and hypocrisies of our contemporary times, these stories raise questions such as: What would happen if Jesus Christ played minor league hockey before he became the Son of God (Second Careers)? What would you do if a group of poets in search of inspiration appeared on your farm "Poet Farmers)?

Many of the stories upend expectations of the act of storytelling, as in Corrections and Clarifications , written entirely in the form of newspaper corrections, or Return-to-Sensibility Problems after Penetrating Captive Bolt Stunning of Cattle in Commercial Beef Slaughter Plant #5867: Confidential Report , which begins as a straightforward account of slaughterhouse operations but quickly devolves into something wholly surprising and different...