Bang Crunch

By Neil Smith

In Neil Smith’s nine stories, average people find themselves in decidedly unusual situations, as the mundane and the fantastic collide. A woman mourning the loss of her husband finds solace in talking to his ashes, entombed in a curling stone. The title story zeroes in on a girl with Fred Hoyle syndrome, whose age expands and contracts like the universe. The members of a support group for people with benign tumors begin to suspect that their meekness has caused their medical woes.

Bang Crunch creates an extraordinary world inhabited by all-too-human characters, and heralds the arrival of a literary talent with an unfailing, exacting concern for the profundities of our lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Jan 8, 2008
• ISBN: 9780307389299

Neil Smith

Neil Smith is emeritus professor of linguistics at UCL and co-author of Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals among many other books.

Reviews for Bang Crunch

[sjanes_10 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

short stories, short fiction, montreal, canadian author, purchased entirely at random