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03006aam a2200409 i 4500 001 5B65F9DE2E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240619010048 008 230519t20242024nvu 000 j eng d 010 $a 2023936545 020 $a 1936097508 020 $a 9781936097500 035 $a (OCoLC)1379265478 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d CPL $d CLE $d CPL $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ca 050 4 $a PS3557.A465 $b G86 2024 082 04 $a 813.54 $2 23/eng/20240223 100 1 $a Gammon, Catherine, $e author. 245 14 $a The gunman & the carnival : $b stories / $c Catherine Gammon. 246 3 $a Gunman and the carnival 264 1 $a Reno, Nevada : $b Baobab Press, $c [2024] 300 $a 142 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "The stories in the inimitable Catherine Gammon's The Gunman and the Carnival -- loosely linked and set in Los Angeles, California -- center on women of various ages and backgrounds. Constructed around themes of solitude and connection, creation and destruction, love and loss, these sixteen stories unfold in a world haunted by individual and collective violence, systemic injustice, pandemic, and environmental duress: not with genre sensibilities of the dystopic or apocalyptic, but with compassion and wisdom that renders a staid, meditative examination of our contemporary challenges. The Gunman and the Carnival does not aspire to be a panorama or to portray the city (or the nation) in its extraordinary complexity. Rather it shines a roving light into the minds and hearts of an idiosyncratic handful of characters living in our difficult times and invites each one to sing. Some of the stories are realist, some oblique and fragmented, others metafictional or surreal, and the urban / suburban landscapes are accented by the occasional appearance of wildlife and the presence (and voices) of trees. Handled with grace and intelligence, these stories chronicle contemporary struggles: the violence and the joy examined in equal measure"-- $c Provided by publisher. 500 $a "A Red Ochre edition"--Page 4 of cover. 505 00 $t Buffalo. $t A vampire story? -- $t Dangerous -- $t In absence -- $t Agency -- $t Claudine -- $t Cloudy with a chance of rain -- $t Pandemic dreams -- $t Cul-de-sac -- $t Pack rat, all will be well -- $t Nathanael West died unknown -- $t Stardust -- $t Invisible woman dancing in a cage -- $t Cat sitting for a ghost -- $t In the future perhaps he will have another chance -- $t Buffalo. 650 0 $a Women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sociology, Urban $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Interpersonal relations $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Grief $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Los Angeles (Calif.) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a short stories. $2 aat $0 (CStmoGRI)aatgf300202607 655 7 $a Dystopian fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Nouvelles. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000322 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619012430.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5B65F9DE2E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search