The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories

Alternately funny, menacing, and deeply empathetic, the wildly inventive stories in Ethan Rutherford’s The Peripatetic Coffin mark the debut of a powerful new voice in contemporary fiction Worried about waning enrollment, the head counselor of the world’s worst summer camp leads his campers on a series of increasingly dubious escapades in an effort to revive their esprit de corps. A young boy on a sailing vacation with his father comes face-to-face with a dangerous stranger, and witnesses a wrenching act of violence. Parents estranged from their disturbed son must gird themselves for his visit, even as they cannot face each other. And in the dazzling title story, the beleaguered crew of the first Confederate submarine embarks on their final, doomed mission during the closing days of the Civil War. Whether set aboard a Czarist-era Russian ship locked in Arctic ice, on a futuristic whaling expedition whose depredations guarantee the environmental catastrophe that is their u...

Author: Rutherford Ethan
ISBN: 9780062203830
Year of publication: 2013
Genre: Modern prose
Number of pages: 195
Reading time: 3 h. 15 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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