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Cop House is a short story collection about men and women desperately trying to recapture or replace the things they've lost. There are secret vacations, library book fetishes, women who participate in "fully-clothed, free-form touching and explorative play experiences" in exchange fo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Gibsons, British Columbia :
Nightwood Editions,
[2017]
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| Summary: | Cop House is a short story collection about men and women desperately trying to recapture or replace the things they've lost. There are secret vacations, library book fetishes, women who participate in "fully-clothed, free-form touching and explorative play experiences" in exchange for protection from teenage vandals and a doomsday cult operating out of an aquatic center. An exiled polar bear spies on his old community and fights to survive in unfamiliar territory. A man campaigns to keep the sitcom Friends on the air after the collapse of his family. A masochistic deer wants to feel something other than the slow digestion of cud. Infused with dark humor, each of the sixteen stories included in the collection explores the absurdity of life when the things that really matter are placed just out of reach. Cop House is a book about the lengths people will go to undo the things that can't be undone. |
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| Physical Description: | 240 pages : portrait ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780889713352 0889713359 |