Bibliograph

Mannequin and wife, stories, Jen Fawkes

Type

Label

Mannequin and wife, stories, Jen Fawkes

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Mannequin and wife

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1149215042

Responsibility statement

Jen Fawkes

Series statement

Yellow shoe fiction

Sub title

stories

Summary

"In "Mannequin and Wife," the debut fiction collection from Jen Fawkes, readers will encounter a taxidermist with anger issues, an Elephant Girl, the strongest woman alive, a flock of stenographers, a fairy on her lunch break, and a married couple who cohabitate with a department store mannequin. Fawkes's sharp and imaginatively wonderful tales trip seamlessly across borderlands, navigating comedy and tragedy, psychological and magical realism, the mundane and the marvelous. An American actor impersonates a code-breaking Britisher during World War II. A mother awaiting her son's return begins to fear that her boy has been eaten. A criminal mastermind's prot©♭g©♭ plots the destruction of Mount Rushmore from within a volcano. A man buys a drive-in theatre and transforms it into a carnival sideshow. An attorney puzzles over how to leave someone his deceased client's heart. These award-winning stories thrust fundamental human relationships-mother and child, husband and wife, mentor and prot©♭g©♭, sibling and sibling-beneath the lens of a provocative microscope. Mannequin and Wife teases out the startling complications that arise from our entanglements with those we love and those we hate, showing that they are one and the same"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Sometimes, They Kill Each Other -- We Can Learn from the Sawhorse -- Come Back, Rita -- The Tepid Tears of Orphans -- Iphigenia in Baltimore -- Well-Built Men, 18 to 30, Who Would Like to Be Eaten by Me -- Rebirth of the Big Top -- Insight -- Call Me Dixon -- Fairy Tale Triptych -- Flight of the Businessman -- Burro -- Chrysalis -- Possible Wildlife in Road -- Breach -- Victoria -- Hobbled -- Options Counseling -- Double Helix -- By the Numbers -- Mastermind -- Dear Delores Dale -- Mannequin and Wife -- Acknowledgments

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