Hall of Small Mammals: Stories
by:
Thomas Pierce (author)
A wild, inventive ride of a short story collection from a distinctive new American storyteller. The stories in Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals take place at the confluence of the commonplace and the cosmic, the intimate and the infinite.A fossil-hunter, a comedian, a hot- air balloon pilot,...
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A wild, inventive ride of a short story collection from a distinctive new American storyteller. The stories in Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals take place at the confluence of the commonplace and the cosmic, the intimate and the infinite.A fossil-hunter, a comedian, a hot- air balloon pilot, parents and children, believers and nonbelievers, the people in these stories
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781594632525 (1594632529)
ASIN: 1594632529
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
I got this through the First to Read program.Pierce seems to excel in telling the middle of stories. And his beginnings are pretty good. The ends, well, are left entirely off in some cases. Maybe there's something artistic to that. Some statement that life always continues on, that there is no e...