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The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories
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Series: Journal Non/Fiction Prize
General FictionLiterary Fiction
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ISBN10: 0814259146
ISBN13: 9780814259146
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Aug 15 2024
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.35 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780814259146
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Aug 15 2024
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.35 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
Winner, 2025 Society of Midland Authors Award in Adult Fiction
Finalist, 2025 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award in Fiction
Longlisted for the 2025 Chautauqua Prize In this haunting debut collection, best-selling author Miles Harvey probes the mysterious relationship between human longings and the secret lives of inanimate objects. In one story, an artist discovers an uncanny ability to transform modern sculptures into priceless ancient treasures. In another, a teenager experiences visions of other people's pasts while vandalizing their abandoned houses. In a third, a grieving couple returns again and again to the beach where their son disappeared, pulling plastic bottles, fishing nets, buoys, and other bits of beach trash from the surf as if those random bits of wreckage were the untranslated hieroglyphs of some secret language that might help them understand their loss. Harvey--whose work Dave Eggers called ludicrously unputdownable--delivers a constellation of stories that explore the gravitational pull of material things: how they drift into and out of our hands, how they assume new meanings, and the ways they serve as conduits between the present and past, the everyday and incomprehensible. Most of all, he explores how these objects have the power to reveal strange and moving facets of the human condition.
Finalist, 2025 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award in Fiction
Longlisted for the 2025 Chautauqua Prize In this haunting debut collection, best-selling author Miles Harvey probes the mysterious relationship between human longings and the secret lives of inanimate objects. In one story, an artist discovers an uncanny ability to transform modern sculptures into priceless ancient treasures. In another, a teenager experiences visions of other people's pasts while vandalizing their abandoned houses. In a third, a grieving couple returns again and again to the beach where their son disappeared, pulling plastic bottles, fishing nets, buoys, and other bits of beach trash from the surf as if those random bits of wreckage were the untranslated hieroglyphs of some secret language that might help them understand their loss. Harvey--whose work Dave Eggers called ludicrously unputdownable--delivers a constellation of stories that explore the gravitational pull of material things: how they drift into and out of our hands, how they assume new meanings, and the ways they serve as conduits between the present and past, the everyday and incomprehensible. Most of all, he explores how these objects have the power to reveal strange and moving facets of the human condition.
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