Things to make and break /
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Author / Creator: | Tan, May-Lan, author. |
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Uniform title: | Short stories. Selections |
Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
Imprint: | Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2018. |
Description: | 204 pages ; 21 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11721443 |
ISBN: | 9781566895279 1566895278 |
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Notes: | "An Emily Books original." "First published in the United Kingdom by CB Editions in 2014" -- ECIP galley. |
Summary: | "In these eleven stories, Tan explores the idea that every relationship between two people is actually a relationship between three people: each relationship encompasses and relies upon an interstitial presence--another person, a former self, a future lover. Within this loose thematic constraint, a series of related worlds unspool. Teenagers in a band betray each other. A woman gets so obsessed with photos of her boyfriend's ex that she eventually contrives a way to meet her. A woman has a relationship with her sister's husband's brother that darkly, secretly parallels her sister's happy marriage. Each character is a mirror, double or proxy of someone else, hinting at the possibility that we seek out the same person in different bodies and churn through cycles of self-invention/-annihilation." -- |
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