Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction) - Softcover

Hrbek, Greg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803236441 ISBN 13: 9780803236448

Publisher: Bison Books, 2011

Synopsis

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Greg Hrbek’s Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories is a collection that explores what it means to be human—and inhuman. These ten stories have won an array of honors—and whether set in the historical past or in a speculative future, each is wildly imaginative and shockingly real.

In “Sagittarius,” selected for The Best American Short Stories, a mother and father search a dark forest for their missing newborn, who is either a child with profound birth defects or a miraculous creature. In “False Positive,” a ghostly girl visits her biological father ten years after being aborted in utero. In “Bereavement,” a marriage is falling apart following a child’s accidental death, but a combination of myth and technology provides hope for a second life. Fantastic, horrific, painfully familiar, these stories are the work of a consummate storyteller.

About this title

About the Author

Greg Hrbek is the author of The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly, which won the James Jones First Novel Award. His short stories have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Conjunctions, and Black Warrior Review and have been short-listed for the O. Henry Prize and the Bridport Prize. He lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bison Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803236441
• ISBN 13: 9780803236448
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192