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"Sparks's stories--populated with sculptors, librarians, astronauts, and warriors--form a veritable cabinet of curiosities. Mythical, bizarre, and ... moving, [the book] ... illuminates the search for a brief encounter with the extraordinary"--Amazon.com. Full description
Table of Contents:
- The janitor in space
- The Lizzie Borden jazz babies
- The cemetery for lost faces
- The logic of the loaded heart
- Thirteen ways of destroying a painting
- Lancelot in the lost places of the world
- And the world was crowded with things that meant love
- Birds with teeth
- For these humans who cannot fly
- Take your daughter to the slaughter
- We were holy once
- La belle de nuit, la belle de jour
- The men and women like him
- Things you should know about Cassandra Dee
- The fires of western heaven
- The process of human decay
- The fever librarian
- The unfinished world
- The sleepers.