That tiny life / Erin Frances Fisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781487003661 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 295 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Astoria, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Valley floor -- Winter Road -- De Capo al fine -- Argentavis Magnificens -- That tiny life -- The white (a novella) |
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Subject: | Short stories, Canadian > 21st century. Progress > Fiction. |
Genre: | Short stories. Novellas. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Bowen Island Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Bowen Island Public Library | F FIS (Text) | 30947000557120 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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A wide-ranging and utterly original collection of short fiction and a novella that examines the idea of progress â humanityâs never-ending cycle of creation and destruction. - Perseus Publishing
In settings that range from the old American West to pre-revolutionary France, from a present-day dig site in the high tablelands of South America to deep space, That Tiny Life is a wide-ranging and utterly original collection of short fiction and a novella that examines the idea of progress â humanityâs never-ending cycle of creation and destruction.
In the award-winning story, âValley Floor,â a surgeon performs an amputation in the open desert in the American West. In âDa Capo al Fine,â set in eighteenth-century France, the creator of the fortepiano designs another, more brutal instrument. And in âThat Tiny Life,â the reader gets a glimpse into a future in which human resource extraction goes far beyond Earth. Each story is infused with impeccably researched detail that brings obscure and fascinating subject matter into bright relief, be it falconry, ancient funeral rites, or space exploration. The result is an amazing interplay of minute detail against the backdrop of huge themes, such as human expression and impact, our need for connection, the innate violence in nature, and the god-complex present in all acts of human creation.
A highly accomplished, evocative, and wholly impressive work of short fiction, That Tiny Life introduces readers to a writer with limitless range and imagination.