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008 021210s2003 ilu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2002041510
020 $a1564782867 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm51241991
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050 00 $aPR9199.3.G584$bB3 2003
082 00 $a813/.54$221
100 1 $aGlover, Douglas H.
245 10 $aBad news of the heart /$cDouglas Glover.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $a[Normal, Ill.] :$bDalkey Archive Press,$c2003.
300 $a212 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $tIglaf and Swan -- $tState of the Nation -- $tDog Attempts to Drown Man in Saskatoon -- $tThe Obituary Writer -- $tA Man In a Box -- $tA Guide to Animal Behaviour -- $tThe Indonesian Client -- $tLa Corriveau -- $tWhy I Decide to Kill Myself and Other Jokes -- $tBad News of the Heart -- $tMy Romance -- $tA Piece of the True Cross.
520 1 $a"In Bad News of the Heart, a seeing-eye dog leads a blind man into a frozen river, a southern Baptist loses his memory and finds true love in Bel Air, an obese dot.com executive has "anorgasmic" latex sex with her CEO, and a homeless man in New York creates an intellectual universe based on Stick'em notes stuck to the inside of his cardboard box shelter.".
520 8 $a"Douglas Glover's stories are wildly inventive, deadpan comedies of our universal human catastrophe. They are sly, demanding and wise - stories about language, desire and love (in a very dark place). The humor veers from the wry and sardonic to salacious, mordant and playful. And always there are moments of such stark emotional intimacy that the reader slides, almost without noticing, from laughter to lament."--BOOK JACKET.
500 $6 0$aLannan selection.$a"Lannan selection."$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002025557
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100003
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR9199.3.G584$iB3 2003