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Riverhead
January 2015
On Sale: January 8, 2015
295 pages
ISBN: 9781594632
EAN: 9789781594632
Kindle: B00KWG9LPM
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A wild, inventive ride of a short story collection from a
distinctive new American storyteller.
The stories
in Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals take place
at the confluence of the commonplace and the cosmic, the
intimate and the infinite. A fossil-hunter, a comedian, a
hot- air balloon pilot, parents and children, believers and
nonbelievers, the people in these stories are struggling to
understand the absurdity and the magnitude of what it means
to exist in a family, to exist in the world.
In
“Shirley Temple Three,” a mother must shoulder her son’s
burden—a cloned and resurrected wooly mammoth who wreaks
havoc on her house, sanity, and faith. In “The Real Alan
Gass,” a physicist in search of a mysterious particle called
the “daisy” spends her days with her boyfriend, Walker, and
her nights with the husband who only exists in the world of
her dreams, Alan Gass. Like the daisy particle
itself—“forever locked in a curious state of existence and
nonexistence, sliding back and forth between the two”—the
stories in Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals are
exquisite, mysterious, and inextricably
connected.
From this enchanting primordial soup,
Pierce’s voice emerges—a distinct and charming testament of
the New South, melding contemporary concerns with their
prehistoric roots to create a hilarious, deeply moving
symphony of stories.
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