Research Catalog

Title

Stories for nighttime and some for the day / Ben Loory.

Author

Loory, Ben

Publication

New York : Penguin Books, 2011.

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Details

Description

ix, 210 pages; 20 cm

Summary

"This collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables and tales is populated by people--and monsters and aliens and animals and inanimate objects--motivated by and grappling with the fears and desires that unite us all."--Page 2 of cover.

Subject

• Short stories
• Nouvelles
• short stories

Genre/Form

• Magic realism (Literature)
• short stories.
• Short stories
• Science fiction
• Nouvelles.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The book -- The swimming pool -- The tunnel -- The crown -- The man who went to China -- The octopus -- The path -- The hunter's head -- The duck -- The well -- The shadow -- The TV and Winston Churchill -- Death and the fruits of the tree -- UFO: a love story -- The hat -- The magic pig -- Bigfoot -- The shield -- The Martian -- The little girl and the balloon -- The poet -- The rope and the sea -- The knife act -- The fish in the teapot -- The girl in the storm -- The afterlife is what you leave behind -- The tree -- The sea monster -- The man and the moose -- The end of it all -- On the way down: a story for Ray Bradbury -- The house on the cliff and the sea -- The snake in the throat -- The graveyard -- The ferris wheel -- Photographs -- The walk that replaced understanding -- The woman and the basement -- Hadley -- The TV.

ISBN

• 9780143119500
• 0143119508

LCCN

• 2011012131
• 99944322749

OCLC

• 681497335
• SCSB-11374162

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library