I Looked Alive : Stories

by LUTZ GARY

• ISBN13: 9780971248571
• ISBN10: 0971248575
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

Acclaimed writer Gary Lutz introduces a new cast of characters in his second collection: wayward fusspots, smart alecks, tank-town boulevardiers, lonely hearts, and underloved, unstable creatures of questionable gender. Desperate for human connection, they listen through walls and engage in such obsessions as collecting hairs left behind by lovers. These 24 passionately and intricately rendered stories secure Lutz's place at the forefront of the contemporary fiction of disaffection.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
A Woman with No Middle Name	p. 1
Carriers	p. 10
Chaise Lozenge	p. 22
People Shouldn't Have to Be the Ones to Tell You	p. 25
Fingerache	p. 37
Uncle	p. 43
Eminence	p. 46
Spills	p. 55
Her Dear Only Father's Lone Wife's Solitudinized, Peaceless Son	p. 58
In Case of in No Case	p. 79
Men Your Own Age	p. 82
My Final Best Feature	p. 87
The Least Sneaky of Things	p. 94
Meltwater	p. 99
Heights	p. 109
I Crawl Back to People	p. 112
Daught	p. 122
Dog and Owner	p. 126
All Told	p. 134
The Summer I Could Walk Again	p. 136
Femme	p. 144
The Boy	p. 150
This is Nice of You	p. 156
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