Title
Tunneling to the center of the earth : stories / Kevin Wilson.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780061579028 (pbk.)
0061579025 (pbk.)
Publication Details
New York : Harper Perennial, c2009.
Language
English
Description
208, 16 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
PS3623.I58546 T86 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
813.6
Summary
Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider -- a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted. Southern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully inventive stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.
Note
"An Ecco book"--T.p.
Includes "P. S. insights, interviews & more..."--Cover.
Grand stand-in
Blowing up on the spot
The dead sister handbook: a guide for sensitive boys
Birds in the house
Mortal kombat
Tunneling to the center of the earth
The shooting man
The choir director affair (the baby's teeth)
Go, fight, win
The museum of whatnot
Worst-case scenario.
