Let me think stories Lennon, J. Robert 1970- creator author. text short story Fiction. Short stories. Short stories. mnu 2021 2021 monographic eng print 213 pages ; 21 cm "Let Me Think is a meticulous selection of short stories by one of the preeminent chroniclers of the American absurd. Through J. Robert Lennon's mordant yet sympathetic eye, the quotidian realities of marriage, family, and work are rendered powerfully strange in this rich and innovative collection. Here you'll find a heist gone wrong, a case of mistaken identity, a hostile encounter with a neighborhood eccentric, a glass eye, a talking owl, and a six-fingered hand. Whatever the subject, Lennon disarms the reader with humor before pivoting to pathos, pain, and disappointment--most notably in an extraordinary sequence of darting, painfully funny fictions about a disintegrating marriage that captures the myriad ways intimacy can fail us, and the ways that we can fail it."--Provided by publisher. Girls -- Boys -- Want (cane) -- Want (nut) -- Blue light, red light -- Polydactyl -- Marriage (fault) -- Marriage (love) -- Marriage (game) -- The cottage on the hill (I) -- Doors -- As usual, only the crows -- Pins -- Lost and gone -- Fastidious -- SuperAmerica -- West to East -- Marriage (pie) -- Marriage (umbrella) -- Marriage (point) -- The loop -- Cleaning (dust) -- Cleaning (off) -- Jim's eye -- Nickname -- Lipogram for a passover turkey knife -- Let me think -- Therapy -- Winter's calling -- In darkness -- The cottage on the hill (II) -- Unnamed -- Monsters -- The unsupported circle -- Marriage (coffee) -- Marriage (drugs) -- Marriage (whiskey) -- The regulations -- #facultyretreat -- Nine of swords -- The museum of near misses -- The cottage on the hill (III) -- Breadman -- Sympathy -- Storm -- Notebook -- Falling down the stairs -- Marriage (marriage) -- Marriage (sick) -- Marriage (mystery) -- Eleven -- Rest stop -- Owl -- Husbands -- Something you may not have known about Vera -- The deaths of animals -- It's over -- By the light of small explosions -- Death (movie) -- Death (after) -- Death (something) -- Apparently not -- Mud -- Marriage (divorce (pie)) -- Choirboy -- Candle -- The cottage on the hill (IV) -- Subject verb -- Because -- Ending. J. Robert Lennon. n-us--- City and town life Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction United States Social life and customs 21st century Fiction City and town life Interpersonal relations Manners and customs United States 2000-2099 fast PS3562.E489 A6 2021 813/.54 9781644450499 1644450496 pda,print YDX 200510 20250318222411.7 in00004450457 eng