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Author Puchner, Eric, author.

Title Last day on earth : stories / Eric Puchner.

Imprint New York : Scribner, 2017.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F PUCHNER, E.    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F PUCHNER    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  PUCHNER, ERIC    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC PUCHNER, E    Check Shelf
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description ix, 226 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Brood X -- Beautiful monsters -- Mothership -- Independence -- Expression -- Heavenland -- Trojan whores hate you back -- Right this instant -- Last day on earth.
Summary From the award-winning author of Music Through the Floor and Model Home, a riveting and profoundly moving story collection by a writer uncannily in tune with the heartbreak and absurdity of domestic life (Los Angeles Times). A boy on the edge of adolescence fears his mother might be a robot; a psychotically depressed woman is entrusted with taking her niece and nephew trick-or-treating; a reluctant dad brings his baby to a coke-fueled party; a teenage boy tries to prevent his mother from putting his estranged father's dogs to sleep. Ranging from a youth arts camp to an aging punk band's reunion tour, from a dystopian future where parents no longer exist to a ferociously independent bookstore, Last Day on Earth revolves around the endlessly complex, frequently surreal system that is family. Eric Puchner, the author hailed as technically gifted and emotionally insightful (The New York Times Book Review), and someone who puts the story back in short story (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review), delivers a gloriously original, utterly memorable collection that invokes both the comedy and tragedy of our lifelong endeavor to come of age.
Subject Short stories.
Genre/Form Short stories.
Short stories.
Added Author Puchner, Eric. Brood X.
Puchner, Eric. Beautiful monsters.
Puchner, Eric. Mothership.
Puchner, Eric. Independence.
Puchner, Eric. Expression.
Puchner, Eric. Heavenland.
Puchner, Eric. Trojan whores hate you back.
Puchner, Eric. Right this instant.
Added Title Short stories. Selections
ISBN 1501147803
9781501147807
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