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02663aam a2200421 i 4500 001 AEA890806BEF11E5917E58C1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151006010103 008 150116s2015 nbu s000 1 eng 010 $a 2014049426 020 $a 0803237472 (paperback : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780803237476 (paperback : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)894747543 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d STF $d GZM $d YUS $d HLS $d OCLCO $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ2672.A5155 $b A2 2015 082 00 $a 843/.914 $2 23 084 $a FIC029000 $a FIC029000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Lang, Luc, $d 1956- $e author. 240 10 $a Short stories. $l English 245 10 $a Cruel tales from the thirteenth floor / $c Luc Lang ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. 264 1 $a Lincoln ; $b University of Nebraska Press, $c [2015] 300 $a ix, 100 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 0 $a French voices 500 $a "French voices." 520 $a "In sixteen ferocious short stories, French author Luc Lang encapsulates the brutality of everyday life. Each tale is an admixture of tragedy, comedy, ridicule, and pain. Compassion lurks somewhere, perhaps, but pity is conspicuous by its absence. Lang's curt, agitated prose disassembles daily life with a swift, unflinching hand and examines it with a sharp, analytic eye. Skinning quotidian moments to bare, raw impulses, confusions, and the agonies underneath, the stories in Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor, show the mundane grind of the everyday forces that are fueled by cruel calculation and amoral happenstance and shot through with bizarre surprise. The results are at once coldly comic and powerfully tragic. Interpreting human interactions as a series of precise jabs and desperate flailings, Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor tells truths about the darker sides of our potential and our well-meaning urges dimmed by chance. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "A collection of sixteen devilish stories, "Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor" captures the everyday cruelty and dark humor of existence"-- $c Provided by publisher. 546 $a Translated from the French. 650 7 $a FICTION / Literary. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Short Stories (single author). $2 bisacsh 650 4 $a Short stories, French $v Translations into English. 650 0 $a Short stories, French $v Translations into English. 700 1 $a Nicholson-Smith, Donald, $e translator. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019023241.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826114133.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AEA890806BEF11E5917E58C1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search