Gutshot
Subtitle: stories
By: Amelia Gray
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780374175443
Subjects: American Psychological fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "A searing new collection from the inimitable Amelia Gray. A woman creeps through the ductwork of a quiet home. A medical procedure reveals an object of worship. A carnivorous reptile divides and cauterizes a town. Amelia Gray's curio cabinet expands in Gutshot, where isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark and outrageous edges. These singular stories live and breathe on their own, pulsating with energy and humanness and a glorious sense of humor. Hers are stories that you will read and reread--raw gems that burrow into your brain, reminders of just how strange and beautiful our world is. These collected stories come to us like a vivisected body, the whole that is all the more elegant and breathtaking for exploring its most grotesque and intimate lightless viscera"--

"Story collection by the author of THREATS"--
Table of contents: title: In the moment --; title: House heart --; title: The lark --; title: People of the bay --; title: On a pleasant afternoon, every battle is recalled --; title: Monument --; title: Western passage --; title: The death of James --; title: A gentleman --; title: Away from --; title: Fifty ways to eat your lover --; title: The moment of conception --; title: Journey's end --; title: These are the fables --; title: Gutshot --; title: How he felt --; title: Labyrinth --; title: Device --; title: The swan as metaphor for love --; title: Year of the snake --; title: The heart --; title: A contest --; title: Go for it and raise hell --; title: the lives of ghosts --; title: Christmas House --; title: Viscera --; title: Date night --; title: Curses --; title: Blood --; title: Precious Katherine --; title: On the teat --; title: Flight log, Chicago/Toledo --; title: Loop --; title: Thank you --; title: Legacy --; title: The man ahead --; title: House proud.