The Running Trees

Stories

von Amber McMillan

224 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Finalist, New Brunswick Book Award (Fiction) Finalist, Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction A fervently comic debut, The Running Trees leads readers into a series of conversations -- through phonelines, acts in a play, and a rewound recording of a police interrogation -- to reveal characters in fumbling bouts of brutality, reflection, isolation, and love.The relationship between two siblings disintegrates after one asks the other for the pen; a professor and his former student get drinks years after a "romantic" encounter; a book club meets only to find that they have wildly different opinions about a new memoir about their town; and a long-haired feline contemplates existence and consciousness while his cohabitant licks his own butthole.Whimsical, unconventional, humorous, and always pitch-perfect, The Running Trees explores how we desperately try to communicate with each other amid the gaps in meaning we create.

• Themen: Belletristik Besonderheiten Kurzgeschichten
• ISBN: 9781773101699
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.09.2021
• Größe: 198 x 124 mm
• Verlag: Goose Lane Editions