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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Short Lives

Short Lives

Fraser, John

Hardcover

Science FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1910301442
ISBN13: 9781910301449
Publisher: Aesop Pubn
Published: Sep 8 2017
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The latest work of fiction by John Fraser ('the most original novelist of our time', John Fuller, Whitbread Award winner and Booker Prize nominee) consists of two stories about aspiration, and how that is suited to a short reflective life, rather than a long happenstance.

'O the Poor Horses' tells of a super-athlete, climber and circus star, Pierre, whose aim is to reach the top of the tent, and then beyond - perfection of the body and its mind. When Pierre tumbles and is crippled, Dora, his assistant and companion, once his facilitator who has become a dead weight, must take on the salvation of his aims. They are joined by Julie - there to catch the fallers, and to shoot unruly animals. She and Dora carry the wounded Pierre away, joined by Masha, the horsewoman - an athlete whose speed and direction depend on her horse, only in part her mind and body.

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