Tunneling To The Center Of The Earth

Tunneling To The Center Of The Earth
Kevin Wilson
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Trade Paperback
h216 x 135mm - 240pg
28 Oct 2021 UK
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9781911231370
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The imaginative and refreshingly original debut short story collection by the bestselling author of Nothing to See HereIn Tunneling to the Center of the Earth-a dazzling collection in the tradition of George Saunders or Kelly Link-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 the 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 humour and pathos, the wonderfully inventive stories in Tunneling to the Center of the Earth explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.
' Kevin Wilson' s stories show us a world that is both real and full of illusion. . . He forces us to look at our own lives in a new and slightly off-kilter way. ' * Ann Patchett * ' Acute and uniformly unsettling, these fictions explore themes of loss and loneliness with fresh young insight, and occasionally with a faint rainbow at the end. ' * Boston Globe * ' A Southern writer with a bent sense of humor offers a fine debut collection of stories, some unlike anything you' ve read before. Wilson displays a marvelous sense of narrative ingenuity. . . Weird and wonderful stories from a writer who has that most elusive of gifts: new ideas. ' * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *
Kevin Wilson is the author of the novels Nothing to See Here, The Family Fang and Perfect Little World, as well as the story collections Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, and Baby, You' re Gonna Be Mine. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife and two sons.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781911231370
Published: 28 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Text Publishing
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 240

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