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The octopus has three hearts : short stories
- Title
- The octopus has three hearts : short stories / Rachel Rose.
- Author
- Rose, Rachel, 1970-
- Publication
- Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & McIntyre, [2021]
- ©2021
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 21-3390 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 261 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "To the outside world, Roxanne seems terribly lonely: her husband Earl has passed away, and her daughter Linda was murdered. What people don't understand is that Earl and Linda are still keeping Roxanne company, reincarnated in the forms of a wiener dog and standard poodle. But this relationship--not idyllic, it's true, but at least relatively harmonious--is disrupted when Roxanne accidentally hits a pit bull with her car. On the precipice of having the dog put down, she recognizes the eyes of her daughter's killer, Helmut. Should she choose retribution, or forgiveness? This is the highly original set-up of "You're Home Now," the opening story in Rachel Rose's debut work of fiction. These are clever, engaging stories with a compelling link: the characters, generally living on the fringes of society for some reason or another, all have better relationships with animals than with other humans. There's a diverse range of creatures, with stories featuring a parrot, an octopus, rats, a chameleon, a pig (Francis Bacon), deer and bats, as well as the more traditional dogs and a pair of kittens named Yin and Yang. The stories in The Octopus Has Three Hearts combine vivid characters and original premises with Rose's trademark combination of whimsy and irony to explore universal elements of the human condition, from parenthood to sexuality, identity to fidelity. It is a collection that will appeal to animal lovers, readers of literary fiction and anyone looking for their place to belong."--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Contents
- Of rats and men -- You're home now -- Troll -- Warhol -- Revolting beasts and those who love them -- The glass eye -- Jericho -- Porco Dio -- Wings on pigs -- The octopus has three hearts -- Karma -- Will you accept the charges? -- A toss through time -- White-nose syndrome.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-3390
- ISBN
- 9781771622882
- 1771622881
- OCLC
- 1227096731
- Author
- Rose, Rachel, 1970- author.
- Title
- The octopus has three hearts : short stories / Rachel Rose.
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & McIntyre, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Rose, Rachel, 1970- Octopus has three hearts. Madeira Park, British Columbia : Douglas & McIntyre, 2021 177162289X 9781771622899 (OCoLC)1227096946
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-3390