Bibliograph

The unfinished world, and other stories, Amber Sparks

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The unfinished world, and other stories, Amber Sparks

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

The unfinished world

Oclc number

922220451

Responsibility statement

Amber Sparks

Sub title

and other stories

Summary

"Sparks's stories--populated with sculptors, librarians, astronauts, and warriors--form a veritable cabinet of curiosities. Mythical, bizarre, and ... moving, [the book] ... illuminates the search for a brief encounter with the extraordinary"--Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

The janitor in space -- The Lizzie Borden jazz babies -- The cemetery for lost faces -- The logic of the loaded heart -- Thirteen ways of destroying a painting -- Lancelot in the lost places of the world -- And the world was crowded with things that meant love -- Birds with teeth -- For these humans who cannot fly -- Take your daughter to the slaughter -- We were holy once -- La belle de nuit, la belle de jour -- The men and women like him -- Things you should know about Cassandra Dee -- The fires of western heaven -- The process of human decay -- The fever librarian -- The unfinished world -- The sleepers

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