Quantum physics and the art of departure
Subtitle: stories
By: by Craig Lancaster
Publisher: Missouri Breaks Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Billings, Mont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780982782255
Subjects: American Short stories
Description: A championship basketball coach caught between his team, his family and the rabid partisans in his town. A traveling salesman consigned to a late-night bus ride. A prison inmate stripped of everything but his pride. A teenage runaway. Mismatched lovers. In his debut collection of short fiction, award-winning novelist Craig Lancaster (600 Hours of Edward, The Summer Son) returns to the terrain of his Montana home and takes on the notion of separation in its many forms - from comfort zones, from ideas, from people, from security, from fears. These ten stories delve into small towns and big cities, into love and despair, into what drives us and what scares us, peeling back the layers of our humanity with every page.
Table of contents: title: Somebody has to lose; title: This is Butte. You have ten minutes; title: Alyssa alights; title: Cruelty to animals; title: Quantum physics and the art of departure; title: The paper weight; title: Star of the north; title: She's gone; title: Sad tomato: a love story; title: Comfort and joy.