The sea beast takes a lover : stories /
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| Author / Creator: | Andreasen, Michael, author. |
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| Uniform title: | Short stories. Selections |
| Imprint: | New York, New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018] |
| Description: | vii, 227 pages ; 22 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11457513 |
| Summary: | "Andreasen breathes new life into familiar tropes via the ingenuity of his storytelling.... the refreshing stories in this debut collection are full of delicious detours." - Publisher's Weekly <p> Dazzling and delightful, with its feet only slightly tethered to the world we know, The Sea Beast Takes A Lover e xplores family, faith, and longing through a kaleidoscope of surreal landscapes and spellbinding characters. <p>Andreasen's stories unfold in wildly inventive worlds that invite the supernatural into our familiar routines: in "Bodies in Space," an extramarital affair is rudely interrupted by an alien abduction, while in "Blunderbuss." a third-grade class takes an ill-advised field trip to a floundering time travel institute. "Jenny" follows a reluctant caretaker's attempts to manage his kind-hearted headless sister, and in the title story, a group of sailors find their ship commandeered by an aggressively lovestruck kraken. <p>Romping through the fantastic with bighearted ease, these stories uncover a universal yearning for connection in seldom-explored spaces, revealing that aliens can help us think about loss, that time travel is just another way to talk about guilt, and that sea monsters may have a thing or two to teach us about love. <p>With a captivating new voice from an immensely talented storyteller, The Sea Beast Takes a Lover uses the odd, the extraordinary, and the miraculous to expose us at our most profoundly and hilariously human. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 227 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781101986615 1101986611 9781101986639 1101986638 9781101986622 |
