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02243aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 079352184D0511E89A6C172A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180501010049 008 170801s2018 nyua 000 j eng d 020 $a 9780062652614 020 $a 0062652613 035 $a (OCoLC)995273497 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d GO9 $d UOK $d TXKYL $d OCP $d COC $d JIU $d SILO 100 1 $a Burrows, Jez. 245 10 $a Dictionary stories : $b short fictions and other findings / $c Jez Burrows. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Harper Perennial, $c 2018. 300 $a xi, 208 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 19 cm 520 $a "Jez Burrows opened the New Oxford American Dictionary and sat, mystified. Instead of the definition of "study" he was looking for, he found himself drawn to the strangely conspicuous, curiously melodramatic sentence that followed it: "He perched on the edge of the bed, a study in confusion and misery." It read like a tiny piece of fiction on the lam and hiding out in the dictionary--and it wasn't alone. Was it possible to reunite these fugitive fictions? To combine and remix example sentences to form new works? With this spark and a handful of stories shared online, Dictionary Stories was born. This genre-bending and wildly inventive collection glows with humor, emotion, and intellect. Effortlessly transcending sentence level, Burrows lights between the profound and the absurd, transporting readers into moments, worlds, and experiences of remarkable variety. Featuring original illustrations by the author, Dictionary Stories is a giddy celebration of the beauty and flexibility of language."--Amazon.com. 650 0 $a Short stories, American. 650 0 $a Encyclopedias and dictionaries $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Vocabulary $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Minimalism (Literature) 941 $a 7 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204091502.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110073357.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20190212020754.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006115149.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720050831.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20180707015014.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20180501010843.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=079352184D0511E89A6C172A97128E48 994 $a C0 $b JIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search