Full Description
On Beauty is a provocative collection of moments, confessions, overheard conversations, and memories, both fleeting and crystalized, revolving around the small chasms and large craters of everyday life. Situated at the crossroads of prose and poetry, these 33 vignettes explore the rhythm, textures, and micro-moments of lives in motion. Composed with a poet's eye for detail and ear for rhythm, rob mclennan's brief stories play with form and language, capturing the act of record-keeping while in the process of living those records, creating a Polaroid-like effect. Throughout the collection, the worlds of literature and art infuse into intimate fragments of the everyday. A welcome chronicle of human connection and belonging, On Beauty will leave readers grappling with questions of how stories are produced and passed through generations.
Contents
Contents
On beauty Fourteen things you don't know about Arturus Booth
Interruptions
Bicycle
On beauty The Matrix Resolutions
The Garden
On beauty Swimming lessons
Character sketch
On beauty Things to do in airports
Baby names
The Last Man on Earth
On beauty Art I have not made
A short film about my father
On beauty Songs my mother taught me,
Christmas music
On beauty Less than zero: five imaginary stories,
Translator's note
Opening
On beauty The Gospel According to Portia,
Fearless
On beauty Silence
This is how it happens,
On beauty The New House
A dream about vegetable soup
On beauty The names of things,
Interference
Seven impossible things
The city is uneven
On beauty The telltale heart,
Green, with a pleasant breeze
On beauty The last words spoken on the surface of the moon
The Man from Glengarry
The secret origins of the everyday
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