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B. J. Hollars's debut short story collection offers ten thematically linked tales, all of which are out to subvert conventional notions of the Midwestern coming-of-age story. The stories feature an assemblage of Bigfoot believers, Civil War re-enactors, misidentified Eskimos, and grief-stricken clowns, among other outcasts incapable of finding a place in their worlds. In these marvellous stories, we can join a family on a very 21st century trip along the Oregon Trail, watch as a boy builds a brother from a vacuum cleaner, follow a sandlot baseball team as it struggles to overcome an invasion by its Native American neighbours, and experience how a high school basketball squad takes to Sasquatch roaming its court. This genre-bending collection charts a bizarre pathway through the thickets of life on the road to adulthood. Pushing the limits of realism, these stories capture the peculiar rites of passage of growing up Midwestern.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Full title: Sightings
• Author: B J Hollars
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180
• EAN: 9780253008381
• ISBN: 0253008387
• ID: 01286885
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Weight: 220 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 137 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. March 2013

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