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The Fahrenheit twins

Author: Michel Faber
Publisher: Edinburgh ; New York : Canongate, 2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Faber, Michel.
Fahrenheit twins.
Edinburgh ; New York : Canongate, 2005
(OCoLC)607586008
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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