Hypothermiaexplores the perilous limits of love, language, and personality, the brutal gravity of cultural misunderstandings, and the coldly smirking will to selfdestruction hiding within our irredeemably carnal lives.Shocking, erudite, and affecting, these twentyodd short stories, "micronovels," and vignettes span a vast territory, from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to the late nineteenthcentury Adriatic to the bloodsoaked foothills of Californias goldrush country, introducing an array of bewildering characters a professor of Latin American literature who survives a tornado and, possibly, an orgy an electrician confronting the hardest wiring job of his career a hapless garbage man who dreams of life as a pirate and a prodigiously talented Polish baritone waging musical war against his church.

Binding: Paperback;200 pages; Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing; Classification: FA; Weight: 388 g; Dimensions: 217 x 143 x 18

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