A Questionable Shape
Sims, Bennett
Sold by Cocksparrow Books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
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Used - Soft cover
Condition: F/ F/ND
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Add to basketSold by Cocksparrow Books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 11 July 2023
Condition: F/ F/ND
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st.* Impression: 1st. (assumed).* Date of Publication: 2013* Publisher: * Binding and cover condition: Mono-illustrated soft card covers showing a skull. Gold and black titles tospine and face. No bumps or rubs. No visible faults. No creases to spine or hinge. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Seems un-used. FINE * Illustrations: None.* Pages: 218 pp. text. vi pp. acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- In the wake of an infection that has left Baton Rouge unsettled and roiling with the ?undead?, three young friends ? Mazoch, Vermaelen and Rachel ? band together to search for Mazoch?s missing father. Their mission is to visit all the places he once lingered: his favourite fast food restaurants, the movie theatre he frequented with his son and the city park.* This is a FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with no visible faults.* 2014-06-05.
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In the wake of an infection that has left Baton Rouge unsettled and roiling with the ‘undead’, three young friends – Mazoch, Vermaelen and Rachel – band together to search for Mazoch’s missing father. Their mission is to visit all the places he once lingered: his favourite fast food restaurants, the movie theatre he frequented with his son and the city park.
As hurricane season looms, uncertainty and suspicion of each other’s motives threatens to pull the group apart, but still, the friends’ search continues. Over the course of a week, day after day, they haunt the places Mazoch’s father once haunted, confronting the same persistent hope that faces all who grieve: that whomever, whatever they have lost, will return to them, in one shape or another.
Turning typical zombie fare on its head, Bennett Sims delivers a wise and philosophical rumination on the nature of memory and loss in this remarkable debut novel.
Bennett Sims is 26 and was born in Baton Rouge. He graduated from Pomona College in 2008 and from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2012, where he held a Truman Capote Fellowship and a John C. Schupes Fellowship in Fiction. He is currently a Provost Postgraduate Visiting Writer at the University of Iowa. His stories have appeared in A Public Space, Zoetrope, Orion, Subtropics, Tin House and Electric Literature.
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