Cardinal Numbers

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480452565

<DIV><DIV><b>From the author of&#160;<i>Inner Tube&#160;</i>and&#160;<i>Odditorium</i>, a book of strikingly original, convention-defying short stories</b></div><i><BR>Cardinal Numbers</i>&#160;is a posthumous collection of brilliantly enigmatic short fiction by Hob Broun, written with the aid of a respirator when the author was paralyzed from the neck down. Witty and full of minimalist surprise, these stories flirt with fragment, fabulism, and collage. In &ldquo;Rosella, in Stages,&rdquo; an old woman&rsquo;s experience is movingly charted through the voice of her writing in six different life stages&mdash;and in six pages, no less. &ldquo;Highspeed Linear Main Street,&rdquo; a standout tale and an artistic credo of sorts, centers on a photographer&rsquo;s fixation on highway life, while the surreal &ldquo;Finding Florida&rdquo; features a Che Guevara who becomes struck with longing for a librarian and receives some unwelcome news from a fortune teller.<DIV><BR>Powerfully felt as well as mordantly funny,&#160;<i>Cardinal Numbers</i>&#160;is a freshly singular contribution to the American short story.</div><DIV></div></div>