Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories

A debut short story collection in the tradition of writers like Kelly Link, Aimee Bender, and George...
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Author: Kevin Wilson
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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories by Wilson, Kevin

Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories

$167.15

Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories

$167.15
Author: Kevin Wilson
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A debut short story collection in the tradition of writers like Kelly Link, Aimee Bender, and George Saunders--strange, imaginative, and refreshingly original--now back in print as part of Ecco's "Art of the Story" Series, and with a new introduction from the author


Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of the Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider--a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a story singled out by Ann Patchett for Ploughshares, a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted.

Southern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully inventive stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.



Author: Kevin Wilson
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 03/31/2009
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780061579028

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 136785 / Tunneling to the Center of the Earth


Award: Alex Awards - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/01/2008 pg. 25
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2009
New York Times Book Review 04/05/2009 pg. 5
Booklist 04/15/2009 pg. 24
New York Times Book Review 04/12/2009 pg. 22
Booklist Ed Choice Adu Bk YA's 01/01/2010 pg. 10

About the Author
Wilson, Kevin: -

Kevin Wilson is the author of the novels The Family Fang, a New York Times bestseller adapted into an acclaimed film starring Nicole Kidman, and Perfect Little World, as well as the story collections Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, and Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife and two sons.

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