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The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic

The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic Stories

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Publisher's Synopsis

  • Merkner's stories play to an increasingly vibrant literary interest in fiction that skirts genre-writing, and his work has been featured in publications that attract that audience, including Fairy Tale Review and Best American Mystery Stories.
  • The quietly menacing edge to Merkner's work puts him in good company with other Coffee House authors including Brian Evenson, Kate Bernheimer, and Rikki Ducornet. Booksellers are primed for this kind of work from us, and Merkner fits in nicely with this segment of our list.
  • Scandamerican Domestic could be thought of as a dark flipside to Lars and the Real Girl-there's violence and horror concealed beneath upper Midwestern reserve and Scandinavian American kitsch.
  • The language play at work in the stories is reminiscent of Donald Barthelme and other more mainstream stylized writers.
  • Merkner is willing and able to travel, especially for university and conference engagements, increasing the potential for course adoption and word of mouth among college-age and twenty-something readers.

    • Book information

    ISBN: 9781566893381
    Publisher: Coffee House Press
    Imprint: Coffee House Press
    Pub date:
    Edition: First edition
    DEWEY: 813.6
    DEWEY edition: 23
    Language: English
    Number of pages: 228
    Weight: 198g
    Height: 210mm
    Width: 140mm
    Spine width: 20mm

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