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Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures

By Michael Swanwick

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Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures

By Michael Swanwick

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This collection of short-short fiction by Michael Swanwick contains more than 70 stories in fewer than 100 pages. Often humorous, sometimes chilling, always entertaining, these are prime examples of a recently resurrected literary form. The title piece is a five-minute condensation of a classic of Western literature, featuring a cigar-cutter as Mephistopheles, a box of matches in the roles of Helen of Troy, an Angel of the Lord, the Light of Ontology, and a cigar as Faust himself. Swanwick's bravura imagination has resulted in a separate story for every letter of the alphabet and another set of tales for every planet in the solar system. Additionally, there is a clutch of alternate autobiographies, a novella of decadence and corporate politics in a future Venice that has been boiled down to 416 words, Picasso and Philip K. Dick as existential heroes, and a rhyme for orange.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
94
Release Date:
2003-10-01
Publication Date:
2003-11-01
Publisher:
Tachyon Publications
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1892391074
ISBN13:
9781892391070
Weight:
145 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
217 cm
Thickness:
8 cm
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