Understories
By: Tim Horvath
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781934137444
Subjects: Short stories
Description: "What if there were a city that consisted only of restaurants? What if Paul Gauguin had gone to Greenland instead of Tahiti? What if there were a field called Umbrology, the study of shadows, where physicists and shadow puppeteers worked side by side? Full of speculative daring though firmly anchored in the tradition of realism, Tim Horvath's stories explore all of this and more--blending the everyday and wondrous to contend with age-old themes of loss, identity, imagination, and the search for human connection"--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: The Lobby --; title: Urban planning : case study number one --; title: Circulation --; title: Urban planning : case study number two --; title: The understory --; title: Urban planning : case study number three --; title: The discipline of shadows --; title: Urban planning : case study number four --; title: Planetarium --; title: The gendarmes --; title: A box of one's own --; title: Internodium --; title: Urban planning : case study number five --; title: Runaroundandscreamalot! --; title: Urban planning : case study number six --; title: Pocket --; title: Altered native --; title: Urban planning : case study number seven --; title: The conversations --; title: Tilkez --; title: Urban planning : case study number eight.