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ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY FIVE STORIES IN A SMALL BOX
In the grand tradition of Neapolitan ice cream, ZZ Top, and Cerberus, the tri-headed guardian of Hades, this set brings together individual short-fiction collections by three talented practitioners of the short-short form: Sarah Manguso, Dave Eggers, and Deb Olin Unferth. Manguso’s Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape offers up crystalline recollections of childhood flashpoints; Eggers’s How the Water Feels to the Fishes brings a deadpan absurdism to the intimacy and vision of his earlier work; and Unferth’s rollicking Minor Robberies unleashes a horde of off-kilter characters and indelible misadventures. Each author’s work comes in its own hardcover foil-stamped volume, and the three volumes are housed in an elegant slipcase decorated with bears and golden smoke.