Tim Flavin
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dark and bitingly humorous collection of short stories from the "brilliantly evocative" (Time) Paul Theroux A family watches in horror as their patriarch transforms into the singing, wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. A renowned art collector relishes publicly destroying his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by helplessly as their father stages an all-consuming war on the raccoons living in the woods around their house. A young...