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A debut collection of nine quirky short stories captures the collision between the mundane and the fantastical as ordinary people are caught in the middle of unusual situations, from a girl with Fred Hoyle syndrome whose age expands and contracts like the universe, to a support group for people with benign tumors that begins to suspect that their medical woes are caused by their meekness. Original. 17,500 first printing.
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In Neil Smith’s nine stories, average people find themselves in decidedly unusual situations, as the mundane and the fantastic collide. A woman mourning the loss of her husband finds solace in talking to his ashes, entombed in a curling stone. The title story zeroes in on a girl with Fred Hoyle syndrome, whose age expands and contracts like the universe. The members of a support group for people with benign tumors begin to suspect that their meekness has caused their medical woes.Bang Crunch creates an extraordinary world inhabited by all-too-human characters, and heralds the arrival of a literary talent with an unfailing, exacting concern for the profundities of our lives.
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