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Item Details
Title:
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FULL METAL JHACKET
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By: |
Matthew Derby |
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Paperback |
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£15.95 |
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£15.47 |
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ISBN 10: |
0472036157 |
ISBN 13: |
9780472036158 |
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Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS |
Pub. date: |
8 December, 2014 |
Series: |
21st Century Prose |
Pages: |
156 |
Description: |
Following his celebrated debut collection, Super Flat Times, Matthew Derby delivers a disturbing new set of stories that plunges us into a lonely heartland of misfits, outcasts, and would-be assassins who lurk in the shadows, searching for connection and meaning in all the wrong places. |
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Two boys discover that the title of their stop-motion animated film about Vietnam has been taken by director Stanley Kubrick. A 150-year-old woman on the run from the government is tracked down by the company who extended her life. A military contractor carrying his robot son in a gym bag struggles to find his way out of the Nigerian delta during a bloody civil war. The wife of an up-and-coming politician grieves his infidelity by prowling rooftops with a sniper rifle. Following his celebrated debut collection, Super Flat Times, Matthew Derby delivers a disturbing new set of stories that plunges us into a lonely heartland of misfits, outcasts, and would-be assassins who lurk in the shadows, searching for connection and meaning in all the wrong places. |
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US |
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The University of Michigan Press |
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