Indentations and other stories / / Joe Schall.
Indentation and Other Stories is a collection of nine stories ranging from the wildly funny and idiosyncratic to the downright bizarre. The title story features a pathological dentist who seeks a quirky catharsis by decorating his apartment in hygienic dental paraphernalia. Other tales frolic throug...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press,, [1990] ©1990 |
Year of Publication: | 1990 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t CONTENTS -- |t Indentation -- |t The Perils of Asthma -- |t Radiator Dreams -- |t Figurative Language. Bridging the Scientific-Rhetorical-Rat Gap -- |t Mediacrity -- |t That Thin Line -- |t A Different Letter -- |t Wide Arcs and S Curves -- |t Good for Running to the Ends Of |
520 | |a Indentation and Other Stories is a collection of nine stories ranging from the wildly funny and idiosyncratic to the downright bizarre. The title story features a pathological dentist who seeks a quirky catharsis by decorating his apartment in hygienic dental paraphernalia. Other tales frolic through the lives of characters who border on the delightfully absurd: a woman, after going through menopause, struggles to recreate her menstrual periods by altering her diet; a former New York street reporter, fired because of his "ideals," aspires to become a credible street person and decides, tentatively, to have a religious experience; an English major turned psychologist writes a pseudoscientific "article"—complete with footnotes and a University of New Jersey cover letter—which argues, by example, for the use of figurative language in scientific journal writing. Other stories are more humanizing: "The Perils of Asthma" is a sympathetic lok at a twelve-year-old boy struggling to grow up amidst his perplexing asthma, his eccentric Catholic parents, and his mystifying quasi-erections. All of the stories are grounded in the allure of language, the luxuriance of detail, and the celebration of human compulsion and obsession. | ||
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