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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Faber, Michel. Fahrenheit twins. Edinburgh ; New York : Canongate, 2005 (OCoLC)607586008 |
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| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michel Faber |
| ISBN: | 1841956732 9781841956732 1841956740 9781841956749 |
| OCLC Number: | 62291096 |
| Notes: | Short stories. |
| Description: | 276 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | The safehouse -- Andy comes back -- The eyes of the soul -- Serious swimmers -- Explaining coconuts -- Finesse -- Flesh remains flesh -- Less than perfect -- A hole with two ends -- The smallness of the action --All black -- Mouse --Someone to kiss it better -- Beyond pain -- Tabitha Warren -- Vanilla-bright like Eminem -- The Fahrenheit twins. |
| Responsibility: | Michel Faber. |
Abstract:
In Faber's collection of short stories, techniques range from the hyper-realism of the opening story, with its harrowing portrayal of a man living in a nightmare world of dispossession, to a sly account of the mysterious end of an author who narrates her novels in animal voices. Interior monologues and letters are interspersed with third-person narration. The landscapes are sometimes exotic: the grimly farcical account of a conference speaker's party trick, a lecture on coconut power, is set in Indonesia; a woman doctor is kidnapped to treat a dictator's cancer in an unnamed land that recalls Latin America. In the enigmatic title story, twins face the dilemma of disposing of a loved person's body "at the icy zenith of the world". More often, the stories unfold in familiar places with threatening corners: urban Scotland or small-town England, as in "Flesh Remains Flesh'", about a 19th-century tannery owner obsessed with preservation.
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