What burns : stories / Dale Peck.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: New York, NY : Soho Press, c2019Whakaahuatanga: 197 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781641290821
- 164129082X
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Fiction | Ōpunakē LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | PECK (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | I2195341 |
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PEAR You'll never see me again / You will never see me again | PEAR Sweet talking rancher / | PEAR The retreat / | PECK What burns : stories / | PECK The Rakess / | PECK The double bind / | PEMB The summer queen / |
I know everything -- Not even camping is like camping anymore -- From my window I can hear the bells -- Bliss -- Idleness, not illness, has addled my brain -- Sky writing -- I've always been drawn to the shape of things -- The law of diminishing returns -- There are moments of great lucidity -- Dues -- That time you swallowed a lifesaver -- St. Anthony of the Vine -- This much you remember -- Summer beam, pt. 1 -- Fiction is an argument against good taste -- Summer beam, pt. 2 -- I cut a piece from time once.
"Written over the course of twenty-five years, the stories in What Burns examine the extremes of desire against a backdrop of family, class, and mortality. In "Bliss," a young man befriends the convicted felon who murdered his mother when he was only a child. In "Not Even Camping Is Like Camping Anymore," a teenage boy fends off the advances of a five-year-old his mother babysits. And in "Dues," a man discovers that everything he owns is borrowed from someone else-including his time on earth. Walking the tightrope between tenderness and violence that has defined Peck's work since the publication of his first novel, Martin and John, through his most recent, Night Soil, What Burns reveals Peck's mastery of the short form as well as the novel"-- Provided by publisher.
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