"Assimilation is founded on surrender and being broken. This collection of short stories features people who have assimilated, but are actively trying to reclaim their lives. There is a concert pianist who defies death by uploading his soul into his piano. There is the person who draws his mother's ghost out of the bullet hole in the wall near where she was executed. Another character has a horn growing out of the center of his forehead--punishment for an affair. But he is too weak to end it, too much in love to be moral"--Amazon.com.
"Assimilation is founded on surrender and being broken. This collection of short stories features people who have assimilated, but are actively trying to reclaim their lives. There is a concert pianist who defies death by uploading his soul into his piano. There is the person who draws his mother's ghost out of the bullet hole in the wall near where she was executed. Another character has a horn growing out of the center of his forehead--punishment for an affair. But he is too weak to end it, too much in love to be moral"--Amazon.com.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Carlos Hernandez is the author of more than 30 works of fiction, poetry, prose, and drama. He is an associate professor at the City University of New York (CUNY), where he teaches English courses at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, and is a member of the doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is a coauthor of Abecedarium and is a game designer, currently serving as lead writer on Meriwether, a computer role playing game (CRPG) about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He lives in Queens.
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Introduction by Jeffrey Ford The Aphotic Ghost Homeostasis Entanglements The International Studbook of the Giant Panda The Macrobe Conservation Project Los Simpáticos More Than Pigs and Rosaries Can Give Bone of My Bone The Magical Properties of Unicorn Ivory American Moat Fantaisie Impromptu No. 4 in C#min, Op. 66 The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria Acknowledgements
Introduction by Jeffrey Ford The Aphotic Ghost Homeostasis Entanglements The International Studbook of the Giant Panda The Macrobe Conservation Project Los Simpáticos More Than Pigs and Rosaries Can Give Bone of My Bone The Magical Properties of Unicorn Ivory American Moat Fantaisie Impromptu No. 4 in C#min, Op. 66 The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria Acknowledgements
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