Cardinal Numbers

Stories

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary
Cover of the book Cardinal Numbers by Hob Broun, Open Road Media
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Author: Hob Broun ISBN: 9781480452565
Publisher: Open Road Media Publication: October 29, 2013
Imprint: Open Road Media Language: English
Author: Hob Broun
ISBN: 9781480452565
Publisher: Open Road Media
Publication: October 29, 2013
Imprint: Open Road Media
Language: English

From the author of Inner Tube and Odditorium, a book of strikingly original, convention-defying short stories

Cardinal Numbers is a posthumous collection of brilliantly enigmatic short fiction by Hob Broun, written with the aid of a respirator when the author was paralyzed from the neck down. Witty and full of minimalist surprise, these stories flirt with fragment, fabulism, and collage. In “Rosella, in Stages,” an old woman’s experience is movingly charted through the voice of her writing in six different life stages—and in six pages, no less. “Highspeed Linear Main Street,” a standout tale and an artistic credo of sorts, centers on a photographer’s fixation on highway life, while the surreal “Finding Florida” features a Che Guevara who becomes struck with longing for a librarian and receives some unwelcome news from a fortune teller.

Powerfully felt as well as mordantly funny, Cardinal Numbers is a freshly singular contribution to the American short story.

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From the author of Inner Tube and Odditorium, a book of strikingly original, convention-defying short stories

Cardinal Numbers is a posthumous collection of brilliantly enigmatic short fiction by Hob Broun, written with the aid of a respirator when the author was paralyzed from the neck down. Witty and full of minimalist surprise, these stories flirt with fragment, fabulism, and collage. In “Rosella, in Stages,” an old woman’s experience is movingly charted through the voice of her writing in six different life stages—and in six pages, no less. “Highspeed Linear Main Street,” a standout tale and an artistic credo of sorts, centers on a photographer’s fixation on highway life, while the surreal “Finding Florida” features a Che Guevara who becomes struck with longing for a librarian and receives some unwelcome news from a fortune teller.

Powerfully felt as well as mordantly funny, Cardinal Numbers is a freshly singular contribution to the American short story.

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