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J.C. Hallman -- The Hospital for Bad Poets
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Time: Thursday, July 23, 2009 7:30 p.m.
Location: Common Good Books
J. C. Hallman is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. His work has appeared in "GQ," "Boulevard," "Prairie Schooner," and a number of other journals and anthologies.
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The Hospital for Bad Poets: Stories(Trade Paperback)
by
Hallman, J. C.
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$16.00
Published: Milkweed Editions, 2009
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Full of cryptic twists, philosophical quandaries, and fabulist turns, J. C. Hallman's stories elucidate an intuitive understanding of the human condition. An alienated young man discovers the meaning of love in the pages of the biology textbook "The Conjugal Cyst, " and in the arms of two increasingly unavailable older nurses. As his father deserts his mother, who is subsequently encroached upon by his eligible English teacher, an adolescent boy constructs a wicker man in the garage, to repel successors and to summon his own adult identity. A mother and son witness a father's backyard fling with a disturbed neighbor who has pruned a leafy cave out of the dividing hedge. A young couple's romantic consummation is repeatedly interrupted by the intrusion of a narrator commenting on the phenomenon of eroticism. Richly allusive, these literate and literary stories explore modern riddles with no easy answers.
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