| Destroy All Monsters and Other Stories Contributor(s): Hrbek, Greg (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803236441 ISBN-13: 9780803236448 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2011011197 |
| Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.56" W x 8.55" (0.51 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Greg Hrbek's Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories is a collection that explores what it means to be human--and inhuman. These ten stories have won an array of honors--and whether set in the historical past or in a speculative future, each is wildly imaginative and shockingly real. In "Sagittarius," selected for The Best American Short Stories, a mother and father search a dark forest for their missing newborn, who is either a child with profound birth defects or a miraculous creature. In "False Positive," a ghostly girl visits her biological father ten years after being aborted in utero. In "Bereavement," a marriage is falling apart following a child's accidental death, but a combination of myth and technology provides hope for a second life. Fantastic, horrific, painfully familiar, these stories are the work of a consummate storyteller. |
