| Description |
213 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
"Let Me Think is a meticulous selection of short stories by one of the preeminent chroniclers of the American absurd. Through J. Robert Lennon's mordant yet sympathetic eye, the quotidian realities of marriage, family, and work are rendered powerfully strange in this rich and innovative collection. Here you'll find a heist gone wrong, a case of mistaken identity, a hostile encounter with a neighborhood eccentric, a glass eye, a talking owl, and a six-fingered hand. Whatever the subject, Lennon disarms the reader with humor before pivoting to pathos, pain, and disappointment--most notably in an extraordinary sequence of darting, painfully funny fictions about a disintegrating marriage that captures the myriad ways intimacy can fail us, and the ways that we can fail it."--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Girls -- Boys -- Want (cane) -- Want (nut) -- Blue light, red light -- Polydactyl -- Marriage (fault) -- Marriage (love) -- Marriage (game) -- The cottage on the hill (I) -- Doors -- As usual, only the crows -- Pins -- Lost and gone -- Fastidious -- SuperAmerica -- West to East -- Marriage (pie) -- Marriage (umbrella) -- Marriage (point) -- The loop -- Cleaning (dust) -- Cleaning (off) -- Jim's eye -- Nickname -- Lipogram for a passover turkey knife -- Let me think -- Therapy -- Winter's calling -- In darkness -- The cottage on the hill (II) -- Unnamed -- Monsters -- The unsupported circle -- Marriage (coffee) -- Marriage (drugs) -- Marriage (whiskey) -- The regulations -- #facultyretreat -- Nine of swords -- The museum of near misses -- The cottage on the hill (III) -- Breadman -- Sympathy -- Storm -- Notebook -- Falling down the stairs -- Marriage (marriage) -- Marriage (sick) -- Marriage (mystery) -- Eleven -- Rest stop -- Owl -- Husbands -- Something you may not have known about Vera -- The deaths of animals -- It's over -- By the light of small explosions -- Death (movie) -- Death (after) -- Death (something) -- Apparently not -- Mud -- Marriage (divorce (pie)) -- Choirboy -- Candle -- The cottage on the hill (IV) -- Subject verb -- Because -- Ending. |
| Subject |
City and town life -- Fiction.
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Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 21st century -- Fiction.
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City and town life. (OCoLC)fst00862081
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Interpersonal relations. (OCoLC)fst00977397
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Short stories.
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| ISBN |
9781644450499 paperback |
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1644450496 paperback |
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