Fancy
By: Jeremy M. Davies
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Ellipsis Press LLC
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781940400075
Subjects: Pet sitting; Human-animal relationships; Cats; Fiction
Description: "Rumrill, an elderly shut-in delivers a series of pet-sitting instructions to a young couple who've come to watch over his many, many cats. A story (or series of stories) about the ways that methodical, abstract systems interface with messy, personal obsessions, Fancy is a kissing cousin to the work of both the late Henry James and the early Thomas Bernhard: an object lesson in how our need to make sense of the world winds up devouring it whole."--Inside front cover.