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More Shapes Than One: A Book of Stories

Pages: 208
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Published: 1 Jan 1991
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Description

These thirteen tales are populated by an assortment of fictional as well as real characters, all of them vividly sketched and the botanist Linnaeus, the composer Offenbach, the poet Hart Crane, the visionary horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, a southern sheriff, a dealer in rare books, a country singer, an old maid (and her suitor), and a mathematician. Whether these stories are deemed disquieting, comic, prophetic, or tall in the telling, they show us worlds where the truth reveals itself in many shapes. Throughout the writings comprising More Shapes Than One , Fred Chappell's storytelling magic transforms the commonplace.