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King of the Animals : Stories /

"In forty-three stories, Josh Russell's "King of the Animals" explores love and heartbreak, growing up and growing old, cities and suburbs, the fantastic and the everyday. A teenager and his family seek asylum in an Atlanta IKEA after their split-level is burned down because his...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russell, Josh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"In forty-three stories, Josh Russell's "King of the Animals" explores love and heartbreak, growing up and growing old, cities and suburbs, the fantastic and the everyday. A teenager and his family seek asylum in an Atlanta IKEA after their split-level is burned down because his father made fun of an autocrat's bad grammar. A man remembers how seeing a snapshot of his sister naked changed his life-and hers too. A talking doll fails her spelling test and a king made of sugar and flour watches Fox News and smokes dope with the neighbor kid. A college student ponders the philosophical implications of a poetry-fueled one-night stand and a father worries he's the reason his adult child hoards dogs. In prose lyrical and precise, Russell shows us how the extraordinary and the commonplace are entwined-and causes us to wonder why we ever thought them separate"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (180 pages).
ISBN:9780807175040