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The Last Vanishing Man and Other Stories by Matthew Cheney is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Last Vanishing Man and Other Stories about?

Magic stops. Men vanish. Worlds end. Life goes on. The stories in The Last Vanishing Man start with the end of the world, as a narrator seeks to imagine how the actions of an American terrorist ripple through his family. American violence & masculinity are topics that weave through these stories, as characters of various genders & sexualities get scarred by the wounds of manhood. But though these stories bounce similar themes off each other, they are not narrow in focus or tone. Hard-edged realism lives alongside ghost stories & weird tales; the lyrical tragedy of "A Suicide Gun" sits beside the wild, filthy, absurdist romp that is "The Ballad of Jimmy & Myra", a murder ballad that might be a lost Weird Al song for a John Waters movie. The collection winds down with an expatriot American living in the melting tundra of Siberia, seeking liberation from the forces that deranged his life, the same forces that shaped and warped the lives of all the other characters...

Who reads The Last Vanishing Man and Other Stories?

Author

Matthew Cheney

Publisher

Third Man Books

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction