One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses

Description: Lucy Corin's dazzling new collection is powered by one hundred apocalypses: a series of short stories, many only a few lines, that illuminate moments of vexation and crisis, revelations and revolutions. An apocalypse might come in the form of the end of a relationship or the end of the world, but what it exposes is the tricky landscape of our longing for a clean slate. Three longer stories are equally visionary: in "Eyes of Dogs," a soldier returns from war and encounters a witch who may in fact be his mother; "Madmen" describes an America where children who reach adolescence choose the madman who will accomp ... (more)

Manufacturer: McSweeney's Publishing
Release date: 30 May 2013
ISBN-10 : 1938073339 | ISBN-13: 9781938073335

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