Like you'd understand, anyway : stories
/ Jim Shepard
- 1st ed
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2007.
- 211 p. ; 22 cm.
The zero meter diving team -- Proto-scorpions of the Silurian -- Hadrian's wall -- Trample the dead, hurdle the weak -- Ancestral legacies -- Pleasure boating in Lituya Bay -- The first South Central Australian expedition -- My Aeschylus -- Eros 7 -- Courtesy for beginners -- Sans farine
In his first all new collection of short fiction in more than ten years, the author of Project X presents eleven stories that range across time and geography to offer portraits of the first woman in space and her cosmonaut lover, a compassionate executioner in Revolutionary Paris whose job forces a crisis in conscience, and a middle-aged Aeschylus still seeking parental approval.