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Book Of Duels
Garriga, Michael Christopher. Illus: Kerr, Tynan
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Description for Book Of Duels
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Kerr, Tynan. Num Pages: 192 pages, B&W illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: FV; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 342.
Fierce, searing, and darkly comical, Garriga's debut collection of short-short fiction depicts historical and imagined duels, re-envisioning in a flash the competing points of motivation--courage and cowardice, honor and vengeance--that lead individuals to risk it all. In this compact collection, "settling the score" provides a fascinating apparatus for exploring foundational civilizing ideas. Notions of courage, cowardice, and revenge course through Michael Garriga's flash fiction pieces, each one of which captures a duel's decisive moment from three distinct perspectives: opposing accounts from the individual duelists, followed by the third account of a witness. In razor-honed language, the voices of the ... Read more
Fierce, searing, and darkly comical, Garriga's debut collection of short-short fiction depicts historical and imagined duels, re-envisioning in a flash the competing points of motivation--courage and cowardice, honor and vengeance--that lead individuals to risk it all. In this compact collection, "settling the score" provides a fascinating apparatus for exploring foundational civilizing ideas. Notions of courage, cowardice, and revenge course through Michael Garriga's flash fiction pieces, each one of which captures a duel's decisive moment from three distinct perspectives: opposing accounts from the individual duelists, followed by the third account of a witness. In razor-honed language, the voices of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781571310934
SKU
V9781571310934
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About Garriga, Michael Christopher. Illus: Kerr, Tynan
Michael Garriga holds a Ph.D. from Florida State University's creative writing program. His short fiction has appeared in New Letters, Black Warrior Review, storySouth, Southern Review, and elsewhere. Garriga lives with his family outside of Cleveland, OH, where he teaches creative writing in the English department at Baldwin Wallace Unversity. The Book of Duels is his first book. ... Read more
Reviews for Book Of Duels
"Michael Garriga's prose is rich with idiom and tension, taut and visceral as the stories he tells. He writes exclusively of getting even, settling scores, honor, bullying and cowardice. The language has biblical force and rhythms, and he goes inside these characters and brings them to us direct from their deepest parts."
Daniel Woodrell, author of The Maid's Version and ... Read more
Daniel Woodrell, author of The Maid's Version and ... Read more