Description: The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories by Ethan Rutherford The stories in The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, a collection from Ethan Rutherford, map the surprising ways in which the world we think we know can unexpectedly reveal its darker contours.In stories that are alternately funny, persuasive, and compelling, unforgettable characters are confronted with, and battle against, the limitations of their lives.Rutherfords work has been selected by Alice Sebold for inclusion in the volume of The Best American Short Stories that she edited, and also published in Ploughshares, One Story, and American Short Fiction. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Back Cover Alternately funny, menacing, and deeply empathetic, the wildly inventive stories in Ethan Rutherfords The Peripatetic Coffin mark the debut of a powerful new voice in contemporary fiction Worried about waning enrollment, the head counselor of the worlds worst summer camp leads his campers on a series of increasingly dubious escapades in an effort to revive their esprit de corps. A young boy on a sailing vacation with his father comes face-to-face with a dangerous stranger, and witnesses a wrenching act of violence. Parents estranged from their disturbed son must gird themselves for his visit, even as they cannot face each other. And in the dazzling title story, the beleaguered crew of the first Confederate submarine embarks on their final, doomed mission during the closing days of the Civil War. Whether set aboard a Czarist-era Russian ship locked in Arctic ice, on a futuristic whaling expedition whose depredations guarantee the environmental catastrophe that is their undoing, or in a suburban basement where two grade-school friends articulate their mutual obsessions, these strange, imaginative, and refreshingly original stories explore the ways in which we experience the world: as it is, as it could be, and the dark contours that lie between. Author Biography Ethan Rutherfords fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, American Short Fiction, and The Best American Short Stories. Born in Seattle, he now lives in Minneapolis with his wife and son. Review "Rutherfords sharp, inspired debut collection runs the gamut of emotion and genre, blending laughter and misery, reality and fantasy, in eight tales that ponder the methods in which humans achieve isolation. . . . These are robust, engaging stories." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"[A] fine debut collection. The stories serve as compass points on a map of desolation and isolation. . . . This is a beautiful book about human suffering, about human quandaries. It is also about bravery, history, love, longing, scientific and sexual exploration." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune"Refreshingly raw . . . [Rutherfords] powerful debut presents each scenario in a humorous, reality-based manner, exploring lifes various limitations and exposing the truth of its unpredictability... Rutherford reveals something painstakingly humane and beautiful in mistakes and misdirection." -- Nylon Magazine"Rutherfords mastery of setting and world building lends these stories tangible reality... compulsively readable plots... the sweetness and strength of his characters, who face up to loss, misfortune, and heartbreak with courage and a weird kind of humor... makes these stories both resonant and rereadable." -- Booklist"The Peripatetic Coffin, Ethan Rutherfords debut collection of short stories, is a keeper. His work creeps up on you when youre not looking. . . . Eight masterful tales inject power, subtlety and emotion into an unforgettable cast of beleaguered, doomed characters." -- Shelf Awareness"Oh how I love these stories! Ethan Rutherford can slay you with humor and buoy you within the midst of tragedy. His range is amazing. Every story is 100% Grade-A storytelling. I bow down to The Peripatetic Coffin." -- Alice Sebold, author of The Lucky Bones and Lucky"This is a flat-out beautiful book of stories... Not all books of stories are page-turners, but this one is." -- Charles Baxter, author of National Book Award finalist The Feast of Love"Rutherfords wildly inventive collection is nothing short of a revelation.... no experience is beyond this very fine writers ambitious grasp. He gives us the world with each story, with the worlds full measure of heartbreak and hilarity." -- Ben Fountain, author of National Book Award finalist Billy Lynns Long Halftime Walk"Funny and wrenching, featuring hapless fatalists who nonetheless never stop striving, even as they continue to squander opportunities. And yet they never let us forget that theres always the possibility that they will learn--even if its the hard way--to see beyond themselves." -- Jim Shepard, author of author of National Book Award finalist Like Youd Understand, Anyway"My desert island book. The one I will always carry with me... each story is a vessel of longing and possibility; collectively, they present a mosaic of our past and our future, reinvigorating the art of storytelling... a revelatory feat of the imagination... an incomparable, vital debut." -- Paul Yoon, author of Once the Shore"Ethan Rutherfords stories are absolutely perfect. He writes with such sensitivity and clarity about how and why things come undone and fall apart. I rarely feel this close to heartbreak, this strengthened by a writer clearly doing something special" -- Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang"A confident and winning collection, every story in The Peripatetic Coffin feels necessary and true. Ethan Rutherford gets it." -- Patrick DeWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers Review Quote This is a flat-out beautiful book of stories... Not all books of stories are page-turners, but this one is. (Charles Baxter, author of National Book Award finalist The Feast of Love ) Details ISBN0062203835 Author Ethan Rutherford Short Title PERIPATETIC COFFIN & OTHER STO Language English ISBN-10 0062203835 ISBN-13 9780062203830 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Pages 240 Audience General UK Release Date 2013-05-07 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint Collins Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Imprint US Ecco Publisher US HarperCollins Year 2023 Publication Date 2023-06-29 US Release Date 2023-06-29 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:138858270;
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