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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories

Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories

Kevin Wilson
4.1/5 ( ratings)
Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider—a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted.

Southern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully inventive stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.
Language
English
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Ecco
Release
March 31, 2009
ISBN
0061579025
ISBN 13
9780061579028

Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories

Kevin Wilson
4.1/5 ( ratings)
Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider—a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted.

Southern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully inventive stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.
Language
English
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Ecco
Release
March 31, 2009
ISBN
0061579025
ISBN 13
9780061579028

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