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The Fight for Space

The Fight for Space

Ontiveros, Roberto

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1622882261
ISBN13: 9781622882267
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
Published: Nov 26 2019
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
In his debut collection, The Fight for Space, Roberto Ontiveros explores the modes of art and obsession with eleven stories that run from fabulist comedy to surrealist noir. The tales--focusing on the inner lives of adult caregivers, delivery drivers, and painters--trace how the ubiquity of media (the world of sitcoms, talk radio, and superhero comics) comes to flood the working class with a dream-like dread. In this book, a budding con artist tries to sell a house that does not belong to her, an anti-social memoirist pens the fates of his friends, and a comic book-obsessed warehouse employee follows a man who wears a gas mask. Atmospheric and erotic, the stories in The Fight for Space, recall the literary mysteries of James M. Cain by way of Twin Peaks.

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