{"product_id":"tunneling-to-the-center-of-the-earth-stories","title":"Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eTunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eKevin Wilson\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780061579028\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHarper Perennial\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2009\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e208\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA debut short story collection in the tradition of writers like Kelly Link, Aimee Bender, and George Saunders--strange, imaginative, and refreshingly original\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003enow back in print as part of Ecco's \"Art of the Story\" Series, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e and with a new introduction from the author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eKevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. \"Grand Stand-In\" is narrated by an employee of the Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider--a company that supplies \"stand-ins\" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in \"Blowing Up On the Spot,\" a story singled out by Ann Patchett for Ploughshares, a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Southern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully inventive stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories | Kevin Wilson | Paperback | 9780061579028 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1726707 (temp: 10)","offer_id":48167487176856,"sku":"1726707","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71NFItNZ0RL.jpg?v=1771947598","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/tunneling-to-the-center-of-the-earth-stories","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}