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  title info:
    title: Dictionary stories
    sub title: short fictions and other findings
  title info:
    title: Short stories. Selections
  name:
    name part: Burrows, Jez
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xl, 208 pages ; 19 cm.
  abstract: One day, while looking up a word in the New Oxford American Dictionary, Jez Burrows was stopped in his tracks by an example sentence. "He perched on the edge of the bed, a study in confusion and misery." It seemed like a tiny piece of fiction had gotten lost, wandered out of another book and settled down in the dictionary. With that spark, and a handful of experimental stories posted to Tumblr, Dictionary Stories was born. Genre-bending and wildly inventive, Dictionary Stories is a giddy celebration of the originality, flexibility and beauty of narrative. Love stories, horror stories, noir mysteries, recipes, eulogies, confessions, thrillers, each one a miniature literary remix of unlikely parts hidden in plain sight, created by flipping through the dictionary and knowing where to stop. Burrows is a master of immersive, immediate narratives. Effortlessly transcending sentence level, he lights between the profound and the absurd with a few carefully assembled sentences, transporting readers into moments, worlds and experiences of remarkable variety. From the everyday (dating, family, jealousy, memory) to the extraordinary (the apocalypse, fantasies, murder, the occult). Organized alphabetically by theme and featuring original illustrations by the author, this continually surprising and wonderfully weird collection glows with humor, emotion and intellect. Dictionary Stories will speak to language lovers, creative minds and anyone who has ever appreciated the power of small things.
  note: Jez Burrows.
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
  subject:
    topic: Short stories, American
  subject:
    topic: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Vocabulary
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Minimalism (Literature)
  classification: PS3602.U76874 A6 2018
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 9780062652614
  identifier: 0062652613
  identifier: 2017047927
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 171106
    record change date: 20180718090427.0
    record identifier: in00004025661