Short stories. Selections

Song for the unraveling of the world : stories / Brian Evenson.

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2019.

212 pages ; 21 cm

BEIN Zab Ev22 2019S: Number line on title page verso indicates first printing: “26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8.” Barcode label on rear cover obscures some text. Paperbound.

A newborn's absent face appears on the back of someone else's head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he's after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perception. Here, self-deception is a means of justifying our most inhuman impulses--whether we know it or not.

Online version: Evenson, Brian, 1966- author. Song for the unraveling of the world Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2019

English

July 29, 2019