Excuse me while I disappear : stories / Joanna Scott.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316498746
- ISBN: 0316498742
- ISBN: 9780316498746
- ISBN: 0316498742
- ISBN: 0316498742
- ISBN: 9780316498746
- Physical Description: viii, 212 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | The limestone book -- Dreaming of fire -- The knowledge gallery -- Thank ye, Jim Bridger -- Principles of uncertainty -- The silver pearl -- The maverick -- Teardrop -- Infidels -- No one is available -- The palimpsest -- Excuse me while I disappear -- Absolute zero -- Somewhere in Germantown -- When drummers drum. |
Summary, etc.: | "Ranging across history from the distant past to the future, Scott tours the many forms our stories can take, from cave wall paintings to radio banter to digitized archives, and the far-reaching consequences of our communications."--Publisher description. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Speculative fiction. Storytelling > Fiction. |
Genre: | Speculative fiction. Short stories. Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 5 of 5 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Gunn Memorial Library - Washington.
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- 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | FIC SCO (Text) | 34055145674986 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Excuse Me While I Disappear : Stories
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Excuse Me While I Disappear : Stories
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and "greatly gifted and highly original artist" comes a masterful collection of stories about the timeless universal struggle to connect ( New York Times ). Joanna Scott, the critically acclaimed author of ten novels and two collections, turns her "incandescent imagination" ( Publishers Weekly ) back to the craft of the short story, with breathtaking results. Ranging across history from the distant past to the future, Scott tours the many forms our stories can take, from cave wall paintings to radio banter to digitized archives, and the far-reaching consequences of our communications. In Venice in the Late Middle Ages, a painter's apprentice finds a way to make his mark on canvases that will survive for centuries. In the near future, after the literary canon has been preserved only on the cloud and then lost, a scholar tries to piece together a little-known school of writers committed to using actual paper. In present day New England, a radio host invites his electrician to stay for dinner, opening up new narrative possibilities for both men. Written in prose so naturally elegant, smooth, and precise that it becomes invisible, Excuse Me While I Disappear asks what remains of our stories--as individuals and civilizations--after we are gone.