The Shape of the Final Dog and Other Stories
by Hampton Fancher
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0399158235
- ISBN 13
- 9780399158230
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Best known as the original screenwriter of Blade Runner , author Hampton Fancher makes his debut with this extraordinary collection that bears all of the hallmarks that have made him beloved to film fans. These are stories about people and places that exist just outside our perceptions of space and time: in “Narrowing the Divide,” an escaped lab rat winds up in a philosophical conversation with a man whose wife sleeps in the next room; in “Cargot,” a failed actor is reincarnated as a garden snail and avenges himself with a Hollywood producer’s wife; and in “The Black Weasel,” a washed-up bartender finds an unlikely traveling partner in a slow-witted drifter with a suspicious bankroll. These are also stories about survival and instinct, with elements of the absurd and the sublime. The Shape of the Final Dog is a rare literary work that is mordantly funny, deftly written, and bound to delight and entertain.
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- Title
- The Shape of the Final Dog and Other Stories
- Author
- Hampton Fancher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0399158235
- ISBN 13
- 9780399158230
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
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