In the Mean Time
by:
Paul Tremblay (author)
A history teacher begins his unorthodox senior course with clips from an ominous surveillance video, causing a student's home life to deteriorate along with the lessons. A girl with a second head that changes into different historical and fictional identities tries to find her father while...
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A history teacher begins his unorthodox senior course with clips from an ominous surveillance video, causing a student's home life to deteriorate along with the lessons. A girl with a second head that changes into different historical and fictional identities tries to find her father while figuring out how to handle Mom and the book club. A blog documents society's slow, unexplained, but inexorable end, or is it only a collection of pixel-sized paranoia? A once-awkward teen holes up in a kiddie-themed amusement park after the end of the world, and schemes to take Cinderella's Castle by force. This collection by Paul G. Tremblay (author of THE LITTLE SLEEP and NO SLEEP TILL WONDERLAND) features fifteen stories of fear and paranoia, stories of apocalypses both societal and personal, and stories of longing and coping.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781926851068 (1926851064)
Publish date: October 19th 2010
Publisher: Chizine Publications
Pages no: 214
Edition language: English
Strange and heart-twisting stories; particularly fond of "The Strange Case of Nicholas Thomas: An Excerpt from A History of the Longesian Library". It's late and I'm feeling inarticulate and not a little sad (possibly just finishing this has something to do with that), but really need to say these ...