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Extinction Events: Stories: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction

Autor Liz Breazeale
en Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2019
In this collection of short stories, Liz Breazeale explores the connections between humans and the natural world by examining the processes and history of our planet. A myriad of extinction events large and small have ruptured the history of the earth, and so it is with the women of this book, who struggle to define themselves amid their own personal cataclysms and those igniting the world around them. They are a mother watching the islands of the world disappear one by one, a new bride using alien abduction to get closer to her estranged parent, a daughter searching for her mother among the lost cities of the world, a sister trying and failing to protect her mythical continent–obsessed brother.

Here extinction events come in all sizes and shapes: as volcanic eruptions and devastating plagues and meteor impacts, as estrangements and betrayals and losses. Dark, angry, and apocalyptic, Extinction Events is a compendium of all the ways in which life can be annihilated.
 
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781496215628
ISBN-10: 1496215621
Pagini: 138
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction

Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Liz Breazeale is a technical communications editor for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. Her stories have appeared in numerous publications, including PleiadesSou’westerTerritoryArroyo Literary Review, and Fence.
 

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
1. Un-Discovered Islands
2. Four Self-Portraits of the Mapmaker
3. Survival in the Plague Years
4. The Lemurians
5. Extinction Events Proposed by My Father
6. The Disaster Preparedness Guidebook
7. How Cities Are Lost
8. Devil’s Tooth Museum
9. The Supernova of Irvin Edwards
10. Ashcake
11. Experiencers
Source Acknowledgments

Recenzii

“In Breazeale’s world a climatologist anticipates the destruction of Kiribati, her island home: ‘We won’t let ourselves be eroded. You can’t disappear us.’ These stories pit our most intimate aspirations against cosmic extinctions—truly spellbinding, essential stories of our time.”—Wendell Mayo, author of Survival House

 

Extinction Events is a book for our times. Against the backdrop of environmental cataclysms past and future, the stories here bring to life the fractured worlds of artists and scientists, hucksters and hypnotists, all searching for those relationships that can connect and sustain us.”—Lawrence Coates, author of Camp Olvido
 

“With a bold contemporary relevance, this collection captures the giddy wonder inside our panic. . . . Liz Breazeale stands her characters in the dusty history of the Chicxulub crater as they recite the poetry of humanity’s everyday aches, the breath of the dinosaurs on their necks. In the face of a mandatory evacuation, one is tempted to batten down the hatches and curl up with this marvel of a book.”—Jennifer Murvin, graphic narrative editor of Moon City Review

Descriere

This collection of short stories is a compendium of all the ways in which life can be annihilated.