How animals mate
Subtitle: short stories
By: Daniel Mueller.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Sewanee writers' series
Publisher: Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Woodstock, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Description: The characters that inhabit Daniel Mueller's stories are all outcasts of different sorts - a struggling poet trying to make ends meet as a stripper; an Aleut girl increasingly dissatisfied with life in an Alaskan salmon factory; an overweight man armed with a remote control, secretly changing channels on neighbor's television sets - yet their stories chronicle a similar effort: the quest to shed their outsider status and seek solace, if not meaning, within the mainstream.

A haunting and evocative exploration of dreams and disillusionment, How Animals Mate delves into the dangerous territories where psyches, pushed to their limits by desire, reveal themselves.
Table of contents: title: How animals mate; title: The night my brother worked the header; title: The start of something; title: Ice breaking; title: Birds; title: Torturing creatures at night; title: P.M.R.C.; title: Zero.