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Title Statement | What burns: stories / Dale Peck. |
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Author | Peck, Dale |
Publication | New York, NY: Soho Press,[2019]©2019 |
Extent of Item | 197 pages ; |
ISBN | 164129082X (pbk.) 9781641290821 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3639343 |
General Notes | Short stories. |
Contents | Not even camping is like camping anymore -- Bliss -- Sky writing -- The law of diminishing returns -- Dues --St. Anthony of the vine -- summer beam, pt. 1 -- Summer beam, pt. 2. |
Summary | Written over the course of twenty-five years, the stories in What Burns examine the extremes of desire against a backdrop of family, class, and mortality. In 'Bliss', a young man befriends the convicted felon who murdered his mother when he was only a child. In 'Not Even Camping Is Like Camping Anymore', a teenage boy fends off the advances of a five-year-old his mother babysits. And in 'Dues', a man discovers that everything he owns is borrowed from someone else--including his time on earth. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Desire--Fiction |
Families--Fiction | |
Social classes--Fiction | |
Mortality--Fiction | |
By Genre | Domestic fiction |
Psychological fiction |