Miracles and Conundrums of the Secondary Planets
Will be published approx. on 1. June 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
156 pages
978-1-62557-933-1 (ISBN)
Description
Fiction. Named one of Kirkus Reviews' The Best Fiction Books of 2015. "Appel presents a cast of characters worthy of his quirky title. Among them Red Ziggy, a restaurateur from a distant planet who opens Birmingham, Alabama's only Latvian eatery, and Happy Gallows, a widower with granddaughter who advertises in the newspaper for 'housekeeping and discourse.' The topics are weighty--abortion, climate change, cancer--but the touch light enough to make you wonder whether you're reading miracles and conundrums of this world or some other. An intriguing read."--George Harrar, author of Reunion at Red Paint Bay
"A fine collection of memorable stories with a delicately surreal edge."--Kirkus, starred review
"A fine collection of memorable stories with a delicately surreal edge."--Kirkus, starred review
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Watertown
United States
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
218 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62557-933-1 (9781625579331)
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Person
Jacob M. Appel is a physician in New York City. Jacob is the author of five literary novels, ten short story collections, an essay collection, a cozy mystery, a thriller, a volume of poems, and a compendium of dilemmas in medical ethics. He is Treasurer of the National Book Critics Circle, co-chair of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry's Committee on Psychiatry & Law, and a Councilor of the New York County Psychiatric Society.