Bibliograph

Here is what you do, stories, Chris Dennis

Type

Label

Here is what you do, stories, Chris Dennis

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Here is what you do

Responsibility statement

Chris Dennis

Sub title

stories

Summary

"A yacht races to outrun a tsunami. A young man jailed on a drug charge forms a relationship with his cellmate that is by turns tender and brutal. A family buys a rural slaughterhouse, and tensions quickly escalate between them and their religious neighbors. A teen raised by his eccentric gay father, a Turkish immigrant, finds his life fractured by violence. A fictionalized Coretta Scott King, surveilled and harassed by the FBI, considers the costs of her life with her husband. Here Is What You Do is a bravura, far-ranging collection, its stories linked by sorrow and latent hope; each one drills toward his characters' darkest emotional centers. in muscularly robust prose, with an unfailing eye for human drives and frailties, Chris Dennis captures the rawneed, desire, cruelty of characters trying to connect with, and consume, each other"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Here Is What You Do -- This Is a Galaxy -- In Motel Rooms -- Nettles -- The Book-Eating Ceremony -- In the Martian Summer -- Gordon Now -- Dioramas

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