{"product_id":"the-peripatetic-coffin-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEthan Rutherford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories in \u003cem\u003eThe Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection from Ethan Rutherford, map the surprising ways in which the world we think we know can unexpectedly reveal its darker contours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn stories that are alternately funny, persuasive, and compelling, unforgettable characters are confronted with, and battle against, the limitations of their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRutherford's work has been selected by Alice Sebold for inclusion in the volume of \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/em\u003e that she edited, and also published in \u003cem\u003ePloughshares, One Story, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e American Short Fiction.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlternately funny, menacing, and deeply empathetic, the wildly inventive stories in Ethan Rutherford's \u003cem\u003eThe Peripatetic Coffin\u003c\/em\u003e mark the debut of a powerful new voice in contemporary fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorried about waning enrollment, the head counselor of the world's worst summer camp leads his campers on a series of increasingly dubious escapades in an effort to revive their esprit de corps. A young boy on a sailing vacation with his father comes face-to-face with a dangerous stranger, and witnesses a wrenching act of violence. Parents estranged from their disturbed son must gird themselves for his visit, even as they cannot face each other. And in the dazzling title story, the beleaguered crew of the first Confederate submarine embarks on their final, doomed mission during the closing days of the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether set aboard a Czarist-era Russian ship locked in Arctic ice, on a futuristic whaling expedition whose depredations guarantee the environmental catastrophe that is their undoing, or in a suburban basement where two grade-school friends articulate their mutual obsessions, these strange, imaginative, and refreshingly original stories explore the ways in which we experience the world: as it is, as it could be, and the dark contours that lie between.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 7.99 x 5.42 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 29, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e L.A. Times Book Prize (2013)\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hemingway Foundation\/PEN Award (2014)\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Minnesota Book Award (2014)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759300935968,"sku":"9780062203830","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/96c0cfc3c1464b71b7e9656448bb3501.webp?v=1780148582","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-peripatetic-coffin-and-other-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}