Tunneling To The Center Of The Earth

Kevin Wilson

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Text Publishing Company
02 July 2021

Fiction & Literature; Short stories

The imaginative and refreshingly original debut short story collection by the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here

In Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. 'Grand Stand-In' is narrated by an employee of the Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider-a company that supplies 'stand-ins' for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in 'Blowing Up on the Spot', a young man works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after his parents have spontaneously combusted.

Laced with humour and pathos, the wonderfully inventive stories in Tunneling to the Center of the Earth explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.

By: Kevin Wilson
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 200mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 1mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781911231370
ISBN 10: 1911231375
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 02 July 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kevin Wilson is the author of the novels Nothing to See Here, The Family Fang and Perfect Little World, as well as the story collections Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, and Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife and two sons.

Reviews for Tunneling To The Center Of The Earth

'A Southern writer with a bent sense of humor offers a fine debut collection of stories, some unlike anything you've read before. Wilson displays a marvelous sense of narrative ingenuity...Weird and wonderful stories from a writer who has that most elusive of gifts: new ideas.' * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) * 'Acute and uniformly unsettling, these fictions explore themes of loss and loneliness with fresh young insight, and occasionally with a faint rainbow at the end.' * Boston Globe * 'Kevin Wilson's stories show us a world that is both real and full of illusion...He forces us to look at our own lives in a new and slightly off-kilter way.' * Ann Patchett *