false 6342781 1 <DIV>Full of cryptic twists, philosophical quandaries, and fabulist turns, J. C. Hallman’s stories elucidate an intuitive understanding of the human condition. An alienated young man discovers the meaning of love in the pages of the biology textbook <I>The Conjugal Cyst,</I> and in the arms of two increasingly unavailable older nurses. As his father deserts his mother, who is subsequently encroached upon by his eligible English teacher, an adolescent boy constructs a wicker man in the garage, to repel successors and to summon his own adult identity. A mother and son witness a father’s backyard fling with a disturbed neighbor who has pruned a leafy cave out of the dividing hedge. A young couple’s romantic consummation is repeatedly interrupted by the intrusion of a narrator commenting on the phenomenon of eroticism. Richly allusive, these literate and literary stories explore modern riddles with no easy answers.</DIV> 6528923 1 5 2009 The Hospital for Bad Poets: Stories total:16|5:1|4:1|3:1|2:2|1:0| 16 56 42 4 0 0 false false Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 19:53:03 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 19:55:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 13:13:09 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 13:14:31 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed Sep 16 18:16:09 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 18:17:58 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jun 10 15:41:22 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 15:41:45 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 10 08:22:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 08:22:05 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Nov 08 21:36:31 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 21:36:31 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 29 18:02:01 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 18:02:01 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Oct 14 13:44:05 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 13:44:05 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Oct 11 20:40:35 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 20:40:35 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Oct 09 04:43:53 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 04:43:53 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Tue Oct 06 16:47:44 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 16:58:57 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 16:47:44 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Oct 06 18:48:24 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 14:43:59 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 18:48:24 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Sep 09 20:10:45 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 11:42:33 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 20:10:45 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Nov 21 15:05:36 -0800 2009 Thu Sep 03 20:16:28 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 21 15:05:36 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 02 22:06:58 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 22:06:58 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Aug 05 15:29:02 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 15:29:02 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Sep 02 10:11:14 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 09:12:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 10:11:14 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 31 07:18:50 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 07:18:50 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jul 30 07:38:44 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 07:38:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 29 14:07:03 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 14:07:03 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6342781