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Blood and soap : stories
Author
Title
Blood and soap : stories / Linh Dinh.
ISBN
1583226427
9781583226421
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Seven Stories Press, ©2004.
Physical Description
v, 138 pages ; 18 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 4827: Paperbound. Presentation inscription from Linh Dinh to Samuel R. Delany, dated July 20, 2005. Price sticker on back cover: $16.00. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Summary
"In one tale, a Vietnamese boy's self-guided, haphazard study of English gives way to a meditation on the university of language. "Everything seems chaotic at first, but nothing is chaotic.
One can read anything: ants crawling on the ground; pimples one a face; trees in a forest." In another story, a man opens a newspaper and sees the photograph of a man he may have murdered, which he impulsively clips, only to feel that in doing so he unwittingly has sealed his crime: "As soon as I finished, I realized what I had done: by cutting my father's likeness out of the newspaper, I had removed him from the world." The collection crescendos in displays of raw creative power, as in "Eight plots," a rapid-fire of three- and four-sentence summaries, and the brilliant, impressionistic "!"."--Jacket.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 29, 2004
Contents
Prisoner with a Dictionary
Our Northernmost Governor
The Town of the Hidden Coffin
Those Who Are No Longer with Us
Our Newlyweds
Eight Plots
One-Sentence Stories
Man Carrying Books
Viet Cong University
Elvis Phong Is Dead!
A Plane Ride
A Floating Community
Key Words
13
Food Conjuring
Food Conjuring II
A Happy Couple
These Ants
A Moral Decision
Tiny Spaces
Murder or Suicide?
Losers
The Fire Escape
What's Showing?
Two Intellectuals
Stewart Crenshaw
An Idea of Home
Costa San Giorgio
The Self-Portraitist of Signa
Luisa Loves Her Husband
Parmigiano Cheese
A Worshipper of Beauty
A Moving Exhibition of Reptiles
Two Kings
My Grandfather the Exceptional.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Fiction.
Fiction.
Also listed under
Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library). Literary Contacts Library.
United States New York (State) New York.
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