| Description |
307 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Raised in captivity -- Execute again -- Experience music project -- Toxic actuality -- How can this be the place? -- The truth about food -- Every day just comes and goes -- Blizzard of summer -- Of course it is -- Skin -- The perfect kind of friend -- Cat person -- Pain is a concept by which we measure our god -- What about the children -- (An excerpt from) a life that wasn't mine -- Not that kind of person -- Rhinoceros -- The enemy within -- The secret -- Trial and error -- Fluke -- If something is free the product is you -- Never look at your phone -- Reality apathy -- Reasonable apprehension -- Just asking questions -- To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is not to die, except that it actually is -- Tell don't show -- The second arrangement -- Slow pop -- [ ] -- I get it now -- The power of other people. |
| Summary |
A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song "Blizzard of Summer" becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why coin flips are no longer exactly 50/50. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian's rabies vaccination. |
| Subject |
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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Life change events -- Fiction.
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Short stories.
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| Genre |
Short stories.
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| ISBN |
9780735217928 (hardcover) |
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0735217920 (hardcover) |
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