Light without Heat: Stories
University of Alabama Press, 2012
eISBN: 978-1-57366-830-9 | Paper: 978-1-57366-166-9
Library of Congress Classification PS3611.I764L54 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.6
eISBN: 978-1-57366-830-9 | Paper: 978-1-57366-166-9
Library of Congress Classification PS3611.I764L54 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Matthew Kirkpatrick’s debut, Light without Heat, is an inventive, surprising collection of short stories full of odd, marginal characters rendered with surreal humor and lyrical, often beautiful language.
Formally playful, these stories take the shape of biographies, instructions, glossaries, and diagrams, all ultimately in the service of depicting characters with emotional intensity.
Stories in the collection explore the flawed nature of memory, workplace malaise, the isolation of home, and the last throes of ending love. No two stories in Light without Heat are the same, yet all of them work toward sharing human experience in new, innovative ways.
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