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Viral Emily Mitchell

Viral By Emily Mitchell

Viral by Emily Mitchell


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Summary

A dazzling collection about how the familiar can suddenly turn strange.

Viral Summary

Viral: Stories by Emily Mitchell

A guidebook tells visitors how to travel in a recognisable but dreamlike United States where mirrors are haunted and the Statue of Liberty wears a bowler hat; a supervisor in a department store must discipline his employees for failing to smile enough at their customers and finds himself unexpectedly drawn to the saddest of them all; a woman agrees to buy her daughter a robot pet to help her cope after a divorce, then is horrified when her little girl chooses an enormous spider for a companion. The characters in these mesmerising stories find that the world they thought they knew has shifted and changed, become bizarre, disorienting and occasionally, miraculous. Told with absurdist humour and sweet sadness, Viral is about being lost in places that are supposed to feel like home.

Viral Reviews

...highly appealing stories... -- Sunday Herald

About Emily Mitchell

Emily Mitchell's stories have been published in Harper's, Ploughshares, New England Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at the University of Maryland. Her novel The Last Summer of the World was published in 2007. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Additional information

GOR006930571
9780393350531
0393350533
Viral: Stories by Emily Mitchell
Used - Very Good
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
20150731
208
N/A
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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