Orientation and Other Stories

Name: Orientation and Other Stories
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ISBN: 9780865478718

ISBN-10: 0865478716

ISBN-13: 9780865478718

Edition: N/A

Authors: Daniel Orozco

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A debut collection of funny, heartbreaking, and powerful stories from the best unknown writer in AmericaBreakfast’s boiled egg, the overhead hum of fluorescent lights, the midmorning coffee break—daily routines keep the world running. But when people are pushed—by a coworker’s taunt, a face-to-face encounter with a woman in free fall from a bridge—cracks appear, revealing alienation, casual cruelty, madness, and above all a simultaneous hunger for and fear of the unknown.Daniel Orozco leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 5/22/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English