Indentations and Other Stories Hardback
by Joe Schall
Hardback
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Indentation and Other Stories is a collection of nine stories ranging from the wildly funny and idiosyncratic to the downright bizarre.
The title story features a pathological dentist who seeks a quirky catharsis by decorating his apartment in hygienic dental paraphernalia.
Other tales frolic through the lives of characters who border on the delightfully absurd: a woman, after going through menopause, struggles to recreate her menstrual periods by altering her diet; a former New York street reporter, fired because of his "ideals," aspires to become a credible street person and decides, tentatively, to have a religious experience; an English major turned psychologist writes a pseudoscientific "article" complete with footnotes and a University of New Jersey cover letter which argues, by example, for the use of figurative language in scientific journal writing.
Other stories are more humanizing: "The Perils of Asthma" is a sympathetic lok at a twelve-year-old boy struggling to grow up amidst his perplexing asthma, his eccentric Catholic parents, and his mystifying quasi-erections.
All of the stories are grounded in the allure of language, the luxuriance of detail, and the celebration of human compulsion and obsession.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:182 pages
- Publisher:New York University Press
- Publication Date:01/12/1990
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- ISBN:9780814779170
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:182 pages
- Publisher:New York University Press
- Publication Date:01/12/1990
- Category:
- ISBN:9780814779170
