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The cheerful scapegoat : fables
- Title
- The cheerful scapegoat : fables / Wayne Koestenbaum.
- Author
- Koestenbaum, Wayne
- Publication
- Pasadena, CA : Semiotext(e), [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- 229 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Wayne Koestenbaum's first book of short fiction: a collection of whimsical, surreal, baroque, ribald, and heartbreaking fables."--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Short stories
- Genre/Form
- Short stories.
- Contents
- [she sauntered from clique to clique]. The cheerful scapegoat -- The cheerful scapegoat in the suburbs -- The cheerful scapegoat (we three) -- [your dormant orifices]. Pulling lashes -- Gardner's scarf -- That odd summer of '84 -- Sorting out Andy -- Bloomsbury revisited -- [the remorse plague]. Green ice cream man I didn't love -- And then I threw my hands in the air -- The red door -- The terror of complications -- Telephone receivers or cooking spoons and purple haze -- [a chemistry set suitable for toddlers]. The snow falls on... -- Pincushion with thimble -- Zucchini blossoms -- Gay Memphis bookcase -- Reverse butterfly -- The greenhouse -- [play our way into utopia]. Dimples in his tie -- Martha never asked permission before dropping by -- Thrown crystal -- Terrifying typo -- The logic of rivulets -- He is perpetually tan -- [a revolutionary almanac torn to pieces]. The temple of timidity -- Profile of a departed cellist -- Do you take mustard? -- Decor analysis -- An exercise in expiation -- Conversation in darkness -- [the civic crotch]. Pillow and Tom -- Newspaper on a dubious patio -- Mayoral chandelier -- The diplomatic rock -- [impersonate the tree]. Gauffrage and the erotic limitations of capability Klein -- Who speaks? -- The pathos of communication -- The sexual translator -- [the schmatte engulfs me]. To be engulfed -- Disreality -- Declaration -- [antipodes and prophecies]. Stones and liquor: or Some differences between remorse and regret -- A few don't about yellow wallpaper -- Pink eye (a family romance) -- On not being able to paint -- The artist's methods -- [oddment cribbed from funerals]. Sebald sandwich -- Tortoise -- The king of Nevada -- His husband -- [keep vaudeville vague]. Variety springs -- A page from my intimate Journal.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-1141
- ISBN
- 9781635901443
- 1635901448
- OCLC
- 1178648642
- Author
- Koestenbaum, Wayne, author.
- Title
- The cheerful scapegoat : fables / Wayne Koestenbaum.
- Publisher
- Pasadena, CA : Semiotext(e), [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-1141