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Life
on
Mars
/ Lori McNulty.
by
McNulty, Lori.
Goose Lane Editions, 2017.
Call #:
FICTION MCN
ISBN:
9780864928887 (trade pbk.)
0864928882 (trade pbk.)
Description:
290 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Contents:
Evidence of
life
on
Mars
-- Battle of the bow -- Fingernecklace -- If on a winter's night a badger -- Monsoon season -- Woof -- Last down -- Prey -- Gindelle of the abbey -- Polymarpussle takes a chance -- Two bucks from Brooklyn -- Ticker.
Summary:
"A middle-aged sportswriter gets a new lease on
life
with a heart transplant and develops an intimate relationship with his donated heart. Two brothers find in their rotting family tree the tangled roots of a dark childhood memory. A young woman travels to Thailand to reconnect body and soul and returns home, physically transformed, to face the wrath of her estranged mother. A divorced man struggling to rediscover his place in the world hits the road from California to Newfoundland, guided by an irascible talking squid.
Life
on
Mars
, Lori McNulty's wild debut collection, sears the heart with blinding black humour and whiplash fast prose. With a flawless talent for juxtaposing the absurd with the everyday, violence and discord with redemption and metamorphosis, McNulty takes readers on an unexpected ride into the core of human existence. Blending aesthetic styles from high realism to the fable-esque,
Life
on
Mars
devours
life
's numbing tragedies and exhilarating passions with ravenous appetite. These are raw, moving, strange stories--an unforgettable reckoning for our disconnected times."--From publisher.
Genre:
Short stories.
Canadian fiction.
Literary fiction.
Magic realism (Literature)
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