Buffalo. A vampire story? -- Dangerous -- In absence -- Agency -- Claudine -- Cloudy with a chance of rain -- Pandemic dreams -- Cul-de-sac -- Pack rat, all will be well -- Nathanael West died unknown -- Stardust -- Invisible woman dancing in a cage -- Cat sitting for a ghost -- In the future perhaps he will have another chance -- Buffalo.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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