The weight of a human heart
Subtitle: stories
By: Ryan O'Neill
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781250024992; 9781250049797; 9781250025005
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Marriage; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: 'The Weight of a Human Heart' turns the rules of sto rytelling on their head. A series of graphs illustrates the disintegration of a marriage, step by excruciating step. A literary feud, and an affair, play out in the book review section of a national newspaper. A young girl learns her mother's disturbing secrets.
Table of contents: title: Collected stories; title: The cockroach; title: English as a foreign language; title: Africa was children crying; title: Four letter words; title: Seventeen rules for writing a short story; title: A speeding bullet; title: The Chinese lesson; title: A story in writing; title: The genocide; title: A short story; title: A room without books; title: Figures in a marriage; title: Last words; title: The footnote; title: The examination; title: Understand, understood, understood; title: July the firsts; title: The saved; title: Typography; title: The eunuch in the harem.