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Demigods on Speedway
Aurelie Sheehan
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Description for Demigods on Speedway
Paperback. It is a portrait of a city that reflects the recession-era Southwest. Inspired by tales from Greek mythology, these gritty heroes and heroines struggle to find their place in the cosmos: each of these linked stories develops the extremes of the modern human psyche. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 204.
Men in dinosaur suits. A Norwegian freakazoid millionaire. Cats and catharsis, somber symbols, listless lives going off the rails. Pluck, persistence, and the pursuit of happiness.
In the tradition of Joyce's Dubliners, Demigods on Speedway is a portrait of a city that reflects the recession-era Southwest. Inspired by tales from Greek mythology, these gritty heroes and heroines struggle to find their place in the cosmos. Each of these linked stories develops the extremes of the modern psyche: an executive struggling to understand his wife's illness even as he compulsively cheats on her, a teenage runaway whose attraction to her ... Read more
Men in dinosaur suits. A Norwegian freakazoid millionaire. Cats and catharsis, somber symbols, listless lives going off the rails. Pluck, persistence, and the pursuit of happiness.
In the tradition of Joyce's Dubliners, Demigods on Speedway is a portrait of a city that reflects the recession-era Southwest. Inspired by tales from Greek mythology, these gritty heroes and heroines struggle to find their place in the cosmos. Each of these linked stories develops the extremes of the modern psyche: an executive struggling to understand his wife's illness even as he compulsively cheats on her, a teenage runaway whose attraction to her ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Arizona Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816531103
SKU
V9780816531103
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About Aurelie Sheehan
Aurelie Sheehan is the author of two novels and two short story collections, most recently Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories. Her short fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Fence, The Mississippi Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review. She teaches fiction at the University of Arizona.
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