Leaving the sea : : Stories
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"This is a Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.
1. What have you done? -- I can say many nice things -- The dark arts -- Rollingwood -- 2. On not growing up -- My views on the darkness -- 3. Watching mysteries with my mother -- The loyalty protocol -- 4. The father costume -- 5. First love -- Fear the morning -- Origins of the family -- Against attachment -- Leaving the sea -- 6. The moors.
A collection of life-affirming tales includes the dystopian "Rollingwood," in which a divorced father struggles with employment while caring for an ailing infant; and the title story, in which a narrator's marriage and sanity unravel in a single breathless sentence.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 273 pages ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780307379382
SUBJECTS
Short stories, American.