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"Sparks's stories--populated with sculptors, librarians, astronauts, and warriors--form a veritable cabinet of curiosities. Mythical, bizarre, and ... moving, [the book] ... illuminates the search for a brief encounter with the extraordinary"--Amazon.com.
The janitor in space -- The Lizzie Borden jazz babies -- The cemetery for lost faces -- The logic of the loaded heart -- Thirteen ways of destroying a painting -- Lancelot in the lost places of the world -- And the world was crowded with things that meant love -- Birds with teeth -- For these humans who cannot fly -- Take your daughter to the slaughter -- We were holy once -- La belle de nuit, la belle de jour -- The men and women like him -- Things you should know about Cassandra Dee -- The fires of western heaven -- The process of human decay -- The fever librarian -- The unfinished world -- The sleepers.