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Indentations and Other Stories

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  • Engelsk
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Indentation and Other Stories is a collection of nine stories ranging from the wildly funny and idiosyncratic to the downright bizarre. The title story features a pathological dentist who seeks a quirky catharsis by decorating his apartment in hygienic dental paraphernalia. Other tales frolic through the lives of characters who border on the delightfully absurd: a woman, after going through menopause, struggles to recreate her menstrual periods by altering her diet; a former New York street reporter, fired because of his 'ideals,' aspires to become a credible street person and decides, tentatively, to have a religious experience; an English major turned psychologist writes a pseudoscientific 'article' complete with footnotes and a University of New Jersey cover letter which argues, by example, for the use of figurative language in scientific journal writing. Other stories are more humanizing: 'The Perils of Asthma' is a sympathetic lok at a twelve-year-old boy struggling to grow up amidst his perplexing asthma, his eccentric Catholic parents, and his mystifying quasi-erections. All of the stories are grounded in the allure of language, the luxuriance of detail, and the celebration of human compulsion and obsession.

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  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal182
  • Udgivelsesdato01-12-1990
  • ISBN139780814741498
  • Forlag Nyu Press
  • FormatPDF

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