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005    20170223120148.0 
008    160630s2017    nyu           000 1 eng d 
020    1501147803 
020    9781501147807 
035    (OCoLC)952648083 
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100 1  Puchner, Eric,|eauthor. 
240 10 Short stories.|kSelections 
245 10 Last day on earth :|bstories /|cEric Puchner. 
250    First Scribner hardcover edition. 
260    New York :|bScribner,|c2017. 
300    ix, 226 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
505 00 |tBrood X --|tBeautiful monsters --|tMothership --
       |tIndependence --|tExpression --|tHeavenland --|tTrojan 
       whores hate you back --|tRight this instant --|tLast day 
       on earth. 
520    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. 
650  0 Short stories. 
655  7 Short stories.|2lcgft 
655  7 Short stories.|2gsafd 
700 1  Puchner, Eric.|tBrood X. 
700 1  Puchner, Eric.|tBeautiful monsters. 
700 1  Puchner, Eric.|tMothership. 
700 1  Puchner, Eric.|tIndependence. 
700 1  Puchner, Eric.|tExpression. 
700 1  Puchner, Eric.|tHeavenland. 
700 1  Puchner, Eric.|tTrojan whores hate you back. 
700 1  Puchner, Eric.|tRight this instant. 
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