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The Machine We Trust: Stories
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $24.95
ISBN13: 9781960329202
Publisher: Cornerstone Press
Published: Apr 1 2024
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
WINNER, Short Story/Anthology, Midwest Book Awards (2025)
A boy attends summer camp where campers are tasked with managing their own flocks of sheep; a set of brothers kidnap their father's prized pet buffalo; a young man travels the country with his mother, a peripatetic professor who has pioneered a radical service-learning curriculum; an unemployed man attempts to teach himself to beat a polygraph test. In The Machine We Trust, Tim Conrad's narrators and characters come of age in a surreal American landscape-sometimes late, sometimes unsuccessfully. With exacting prose that searches and clutches, Conrad exposes the cracks where hearts are broken, and redemption is just one chance away.
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