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Absurdist fiction collection
Angela Buck short stories
Author_Angela Buck
avant-garde literature
Big Other Book Award finalist
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Experimental fiction
Experimental horror fiction
experimental storytelling
experimental writing
FC2
Feminist surreal fiction
fiction
Fiction about precarity and labor
Fiction about robots and extinction
fiction collective 2
flash fiction
Horses Dream of Money Angela Buck
Literary fiction with dark humor
novel
short fiction
short stories
Stories about talking animals
Surreal literary fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781573661881
- Weight: 265g
- Dimensions: 139 x 213mm
- Publication Date: 23 Feb 2021
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A visceral, stark, and deadpan collection of stories that brilliantly fuse humor with horror
Horses Dream of Money is a daring collection of tales, darkly humorous, that eerily channels the surreal and sinister mood of the times. Preoccupied with the fault lines between life and death, and veering often into horror, Angela Buck brings a raw energy and witty sobriety to these accounts of human life and connection with the intimacy of fireside-storytelling, gimlet-eyed revelry in bloodletting, and a masterful sleight of hand between the fantastical and the quotidian.
'The Solicitor' reinvents the coming-of-age story as a romance-for-hire between a girl and her 'solicitor,' a man whose services are demanded by her mother and enforced by a cruel master. 'Coffin-Testament' is a fabulous futuristic account of the extinction of human life on earth written 1,667 years later by a group of lady robots channeling Sir Thomas Browne to muse on their own mortality. 'The Bears at Bedtime' documents a compound of cuddly kind worker-bears and their ruthless doings. 'Bisquit' imagines today's precariat as a lovable horse who is traded from one master to another until a horse race brings his maddeningly repetitive adventures to a violent conclusion.
Horses Dream of Money is a daring collection of tales, darkly humorous, that eerily channels the surreal and sinister mood of the times. Preoccupied with the fault lines between life and death, and veering often into horror, Angela Buck brings a raw energy and witty sobriety to these accounts of human life and connection with the intimacy of fireside-storytelling, gimlet-eyed revelry in bloodletting, and a masterful sleight of hand between the fantastical and the quotidian.
'The Solicitor' reinvents the coming-of-age story as a romance-for-hire between a girl and her 'solicitor,' a man whose services are demanded by her mother and enforced by a cruel master. 'Coffin-Testament' is a fabulous futuristic account of the extinction of human life on earth written 1,667 years later by a group of lady robots channeling Sir Thomas Browne to muse on their own mortality. 'The Bears at Bedtime' documents a compound of cuddly kind worker-bears and their ruthless doings. 'Bisquit' imagines today's precariat as a lovable horse who is traded from one master to another until a horse race brings his maddeningly repetitive adventures to a violent conclusion.
Angela Buck has worked in hotels, hospitals, libraries, grocery stores, restaurants, bookstores, schools, amusement parks, museums, and universities. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, and teaches at Capital University.
