Leaving the sea : stories / Ben Marcus.
A collection of life-affirming tales includes the dystopian "Rollingwood," in which a divorced father struggles with employment while caring for an ailing infant; and the title story, in which a narrator's marriage and sanity unravel in a single breathless sentence.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307379382
- ISBN: 0307379388
- ISBN: 9780307739988
- ISBN: 0307739988
- Physical Description: vii, 273 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "This is a Borzoi Book"--Title page verso. Selected stories were previously published (2000-2013). |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. What have you done? -- I can say many nice things -- The dark arts -- Rollingwood -- 2. On not growing up -- My views on the darkness -- 3. Watching mysteries with my mother -- The loyalty protocol -- 4. The father costume -- 5. First love -- Fear the morning -- Origins of the family -- Against attachment -- Leaving the sea -- 6. The moors. |
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Subject: | Short stories, American. |
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