The noctambulists & other fictions
By: Peter Spielberg.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fiction Collective Two, Florida State University
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Tallahassee
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Humorous stories, American.; Science fiction, American.
Other titles: Noctambulists and other fictions
Description: "FC2 veteran Peter Spielberg returns with The Noctambulists & Other Fictions, a collection of spare, deadpan tales in which life's absurdity acts as a gateway to an even more confounding reality. Here, social mores are recycled, like so much scrap metal, in the name of extremist conservation; gender roles are mere foggy memories; and one man's life's work is another's garage sale.

As timely and relevant as they are fantastic, these stories make common sense of paradox, and find insight in a world that resists interpretation. Fresh, inventive, and darkly comic, The Noctambulists & Other Fictions recalls the work of John Hawkes, Robert Coover, and Don DeLillo.

These haunting stories, like modern fairytales, draw us unconsciously through the mirror until we find ourselves half-drowned, washed up on the bank of the River Styx, our head in the arms of a stranger, looking out at the world we knew, and laughing."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Apocrypha; title: Withholding; title: Cry wolf; title: Vanishing; title: Trading down; title: A happening; title: The noctambulists.