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Hybrid Creatures

Autor Matthew Baker Editat de Michael Griffith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 feb 2018
Hybrid Creatures, Matthew Baker's sharp and innovative collection, follows four very different protagonists as they search for, and struggle with, connection: an amateur hacker attempts to track down his vanished mentor; a math prodigy, the child of divorced parents, struggles with being torn between his two families; a composer takes a spontaneous trip to Nashville while mourning his husband's death and gets trapped on a hotel rooftop with a hipster; and a wayward philosopher accepts a job working for an industrial farming corporation. Through-out, Baker explores the inner dialogue of failed, floundering, and successful bonds between strangers, among family and friends, and even within a person.
Pairing the emotional pursuit of connection with multiple forms of communication, Baker weaves the languages of HTML, mathematics, mu-sical notations, and propositional logic into the storytelling in order to unveil nuances of experiences and emotions. This poignant formal invention articulates loneliness, grief, doubt, and comfort in ways that are inaccessible through traditional language alone. In both form and content, Baker captures the complexities of breaking and forming connections with other people, and the various lan-guages we use to navigate this inescapable human need--resulting in a moving exploration of interpersonal bonds.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780807168868
ISBN-10: 0807168866
Pagini: 136
Dimensiuni: 203 x 213 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Lsu Press

Notă biografică

Matthew Baker is the author of the children's novel If You Find This, a Booklist Top Ten Debut of 2015 and an Edgar Award Nominee for Best Juvenile Mystery. Baker's stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, New England Review, The Southern Review, Electric Literature, One Story, and elsewhere.