Games And Stunts, A Book Of Fiction

Fiction. The 50 short–short stories are based on old–time games played in parlors, basements, and fields with balls, brooms, blindfolds, and cards. As winners and losers emerge from dodge ball, word games or balloon contests, so does the theme of our inner life as ceaseless competition.There is calculation, envy, humiliation and joy, and there is always the next round when everything might change.
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Games And Stunts, A Book Of Fiction

Fiction. The 50 short–short stories are based on old–time games played in parlors, basements, and fields with balls, brooms, blindfolds, and cards. As winners and losers emerge from dodge ball, word games or balloon contests, so does the theme of our inner life as ceaseless competition.There is calculation, envy, humiliation and joy, and there is always the next round when everything might change.
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Games And Stunts, A Book Of Fiction

Games And Stunts, A Book Of Fiction

by Albert Mobilio
Games And Stunts, A Book Of Fiction

Games And Stunts, A Book Of Fiction

by Albert Mobilio

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Fiction. The 50 short–short stories are based on old–time games played in parlors, basements, and fields with balls, brooms, blindfolds, and cards. As winners and losers emerge from dodge ball, word games or balloon contests, so does the theme of our inner life as ceaseless competition.There is calculation, envy, humiliation and joy, and there is always the next round when everything might change.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780989810340
Publisher: Black Square Editions
Publication date: 04/01/2017
Pages: 136
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author


Albert Mobilio is the recipient of a Whiting Award and a McDowell Fellowship. His work has appeared in Harper's, Black Clock, BOMB, Cabinet, Hambone, Lithub and Tin House. Books include GAMES AND STUNTS (Black Square Editions, 2017), TOUCH WOOD (Black Square Editions, 2011), BENDABLE SIEGE (Red Dust, 1991), The Geographics, and Me With Animal Towering. He is a contributing editor at Bookforum and an editor for Hyperallergic Weekend.
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