| Description |
260 pages : illustration ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
I. Beginnings and endings. Polyptych for the beginning of the end of the world, or three beginnings for the end of the world and a play -- II. Youth. Ocelots -- The vegetable church -- YA -- III. Illness. Concerning those who have fallen asleep -- The box -- IV. Fires. Sleepy things -- Animal fires -- V. Heroes. Immanuel -- Wren & Riley -- Death on Mars -- VI. Confessions. Ransoms -- The prize. |
| Summary |
"In the title story, a one-armed Harlem Hellfighter goes in search of his specially altered military uniform while Influenza ravages Philadelphia. In 'Sleepy Things,' a man is bound to the bedside of his comatose girlfriend who haunts his mother’s dreams. In 'Wren & Riley,' a couple travels to Wyoming to visit a childhood friend who killed her abusive husband. And in 'The Vegetable Church,' a pair of Syrian sisters, refugees of the civil war, find themselves at a crossroads in the home of their European hosts while their dead father whispers to them words of comfort and guidance. The stories in Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep...explore the quiet spaces where the living and the dead alike haunt one another through their choices, dreams, and institutions." --publisher's website |
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Haunted places -- Fiction.
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Dead -- Fiction.
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Ghost stories.
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Short stories.
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| Genre |
Short stories.
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| ISBN |
9781662601354 (pbk.) |
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1662601352 (pbk.) |
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