| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 226 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
The janitor in space -- The Lizzie Borden jazz babies -- The cemetery for lost faces -- The logic of the loaded heart -- Thirteen ways of destroying a painting -- Lancelot in the lost places of the world -- And the world was crowded with things that meant love -- Birds with teeth -- For these humans who cannot fly -- Take your daughter to the slaughter -- We were holy once -- La belle de nuit, la belle de jour -- The men and women like him -- Things you should know about Cassandra Dee -- The fires of western heaven -- The process of human decay -- The fever librarian -- The unfinished world -- The sleepers. |
| Summary |
"Sparks's stories--populated with sculptors, librarians, astronauts, and warriors--form a veritable cabinet of curiosities. Mythical, bizarre, and ... moving, [the book] ... illuminates the search for a brief encounter with the extraordinary"--Amazon.com. |
| Subject |
Speculative fiction, American.
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Artists -- Fiction.
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Astronauts -- Fiction.
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Speculative fiction, American. (OCoLC)fst01764418
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Kurzgeschichte (DE-588)4033842-3
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Erzählung (DE-588)4015464-6
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Amerikanisches Englisch (DE-588)4094804-3
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Short stories.
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Short stories.
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| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections
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| ISBN |
9781631490903 (softcover) |
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1631490907 (softcover) |
| Standard No. |
40025633001 |
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