
Especially the Bad Things
Greg Gerke(Author)
Splice (Publisher)
Published on 16. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
150 pages
978-1-9161730-0-2 (ISBN)
Description
Can a relationship survive on one person’s love for a beard? Can Shakespeare protect a doomed romance from an angry bee stuck in a car? How does an old iron speak to affairs of the heart? And how can we gauge the secret yearnings of the woman who writes novels about werewolves?
Wry and absurd, pithy and profound, the short fiction of Greg Gerke takes the pulse of couples arriving at the end of something, lovers entering the "unendurable zone." Moments of improbable grace are salvaged from bitter break-ups, prolonged languor is punctuated by bursts of panic and violence, and the acute pain of thwarted hopes dissipates into indifference. In each of these forty stories, Gerke diagnoses the poisons of heartache with results that pull in two directions at once: comical and grotesque, caustic and humane, sharp-tongued and stirringly sincere.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
177 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9161730-0-2 (9781916173002)
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Greg Gerke is the author of Especially the Bad Things and See What I See, both published by Splice.