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Gathers the collections of three practitioners of the short-short fiction form, in a volume that features such pieces as Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape in which the protagonist reflects on childhood misadventures, How the Water Feels to the Fishes in which the author augments earlier works with unusual elements, and Minor Robberies, in which off-kilter characters interact in unexpected ways.
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In the grand tradition of Neapolitan ice cream, ZZ Top, and Cerberus, the tri-headed guardian of Hades, this set combines individual, short fiction collections by three talented practitioners of the short-short form. Manguso’s Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape is a series of crystalline recollections of her childhood misadventures; Eggers’ How the Water Feels to the Fishes brings a deadpan absurdism to the intimacy and vision of his earlier work; and Unferth’s rollicking Minor Robberies unleashes a horde of off-kilter characters and their indelible misadventures. Each author’s work comes in its own hardcover, foil-stamped volume, and the three volumes are housed in an elegant slipcase.
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