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The Overlook Press

How Animals Mate: Stories

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Title: How Animals Mate: Stories
Author: Daniel Mueller
ISBN: 1585670553
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Published: 2000
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition (stated), First Printing
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: The characters that inhabit Daniel Mueller's stories are all outcasts of different sorts -- a struggling poet trying to make ends meet as a stripper; an Aleut girl increasingly dissatisfied with life in an Alaskan salmon factory; an overweight man armed with a remote control, secretly changing channels on neighbors' television sets -- yet their stories chronicle a similar effort: the quest to shed their outsider status and seek solace, if not meaning, within the mainstream.

A haunting and evocative exploration of dreams and disillusionment, How Animals Mate delves into the dangerous territories where psyches, pushed to their limits by desire, reveal themselves. A writer reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor and Truman Capote, Daniel Mueller has crafted stories that are compact, powerful, and uniquely American in style and sensibility.