SubtitleShort Stories
PublisherLamar University Press
EAN/ISBN978-0991107490
Release Date2014-08-20
Author(s)Christopher Linforth (MFA '13)
SummaryIn these twelve stories, Christopher Linforth explores the complexities, difficulties, and troubling alienation of the modern world. This diverse, innovative collection spans the globe and includes elegant meditations on a failing relationship in post-Communist Croatia, a violin appraiser's quest to auction a rare Stradivarius, a difficult and troubling father-son relationship in 1950s Levittown,  a posse of cowboys hired to round-up feral cattle in Japan, and a post-modern novella charting the identity breakdown of a writer.