American innovations
By: by Rivka Galchen
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780007548781; 9780007548798
Subjects: Short stories
Description: This is a short-story collection from one of America's young talents. In one of the intensely imaginative stories in Rivka's Galchen's book, a young woman's furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to promise to deliver a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a third, the petty details of a property transaction illuminate the complicated pains and loves of a family. The tales in this collection are secretely in conversation with canonical stories, reimagined from the perspective of female characters.
Notes: Cover subtitle: stories.
Table of contents: title: The lost order --; title: The region of unlikeness --; title: Sticker shock --; title: American innovations --; title: Wild berry blue --; title: The entire northern side was covered with fire --; title: Real estate --; title: Dean of the arts --; title: The late novels of Gene Hackman --; title: Once an empire.