The gnome stories /

The gnome stories /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Monson, Ander, 1975- author.
Uniform title:	Short stories. Selections
Imprint:	Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2020] ©2020
Description:	164 pages ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Interpersonal relations -- Fiction. Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction. Short stories, American. Interpersonal relations. Loss (Psychology) Short stories, American. Fiction. Short stories. Short stories.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12040154

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ISBN:	9781644450123 1644450127
Summary:	"The Gnome Stories focuses on characters who are loners in the truest sense; who are in the process of recovering from mental, physical, or emotional trauma; and who find solace - or at least a sense of purpose - in peculiar jobs and pursuits. A man whose wife has left him is robbed, so he decides to start doing his own breaking and entering, into his neighbors' homes. When another man's girlfriend is cryogenically frozen by her family after a car accident, he becomes a maintenance worker at the cryogenic facility, eavesdropping on visitors as they whisper secrets to their frozen loved ones. A woman serves as an assistant to the Starvationist, whose methods to help clients lose large amounts of weight are unorthodox, sadistic--and utterly failproof. Another woman and her robot assistant have been hired to tinker with the troubling memories inside a celebrity's brain. With The Gnome Stories, Ander Monson presents eleven unforgettable stories about oddly American situations: as surreal as an urban legend and at the same time perfectly mundane."--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

Weep no more over this event
Believing in the future with the torturer's apprentice
The Golem
The reassurances
In a structure simulating an owl
This time with feeling
It is hard not to love the starvationist's assistant
Everyone looks better when they're under arrest
Opportunities for intimacy
The gnome
Our song.