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The imaginary lives of mechanical men : stories /
The mechanical men in these stories-Industrial Age holdovers, outsiders wanting for relevance and respect, or overwhelmed people who confuse the certainties of one reality with the doubts of another-are cut off in some way from contemporary culture. Sometimes in these stories, which Randy F. Nelson...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The mechanical men in these stories-Industrial Age holdovers, outsiders wanting for relevance and respect, or overwhelmed people who confuse the certainties of one reality with the doubts of another-are cut off in some way from contemporary culture. Sometimes in these stories, which Randy F. Nelson calls ""thought experiments about values in conflict, "" the characters are like the Native American prison guard in ""Escape"": Rifkin thinks that atonement is possible even for fugitive killers. Others are less sanguine. In ""Breakers, "" a corporate hitman arrives on a forgettable island off the Af |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (210 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780820342863 0820342866 1283253186 9781283253185 9786613253187 6613253189 |