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The knack of doing : stories /

Perverse, playful and highly comic stories that take dead aim at fictional and literary convention. These stories run the gamut from parody to tragedy and back, and reimagine the art of storytelling for the twenty-first century.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davies, Jeremy M., 1978- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : David R. Godine, [2016]
Subjects:
Storytelling in literature > Parodies, imitations, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Forkhead box
  • Sad white people
  • The terrible riddles of human sexuality (solved)
  • The dandy's garrote. II. Ten letters
  • The excise-man
  • Kurt Vonnegut and the great bordellos of the Danube Delta
  • The sinces. III. On the furtiveness of Kurtz
  • Illness as metaphor
  • Henrietta the spider
  • The knack of doing. IV. Delete the Marquis.