
Universal Love
Stories
Alexander Weinstein(Author)
Henry Holt & Company Inc (Publisher)
Published on 1. February 2020
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-250-14435-5 (ISBN)
Description
Universal Love welcomes readers to a near-future world where our everyday technologies have fundamentally altered the possibilities and limits of how we love one another. In these gripping stories, a young boy tries to understand what keeps his father tethered to the drowned city they call home. A daughter gets to know her dead mother's hologram better than she ever knew her living mother. And, at a time when unpleasant memories can be erased, a man undergoes electronic surgery to have his depression, and his past, forever removed. In an age when technology offers the easiest cures for loneliness, these characters must wrestle with what it means to stay human in an increasingly cybernetic future, and how love can endure even the most alluring upgrades.
In the vein of Weinstein's critically-acclaimed first collection, Universal Love is a visionary book, written with one foot in the real world and one stepping bravely into the future.
In the vein of Weinstein's critically-acclaimed first collection, Universal Love is a visionary book, written with one foot in the real world and one stepping bravely into the future.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-250-14435-5 (9781250144355)
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Person
Alexander Weinstein is the director of the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and the author of the short story collection, Children of the New World. He is a recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and his stories have received the Lamar York, New Millennium, and Lascaux Short Fiction Prizes, and appear in the anthologies Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy and Best American Experimental Writing. He is an associate professor of creative writing at Siena Heights University and lectures in the United States and Europe.