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Survival house : stories / by Wendell Mayo.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Nacogdoches, Texas : Stephen F. Austin State University Press, (c)2018.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (148 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781622882083
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS3563 .S878 2018
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
The Trans-Siberian Railway Comes to Whitehouse -- The Big Healy -- Commie Christmas -- A Kind of Tender Infinity -- We Wandered Ourselves Back to One -- Survival House -- Story of a Postcard -- Cherry Pie -- The World is Ending Yesterday.
Subject: Often humorous, always resonant, the ten stories in Survival House not only look back to the collective mind of doom in the atomic age of the 1950s and 1960s, but also address its legacy in our time--the emergence of new nuclear powers, polarizing politics, and the ever-tightening grip of corporations. In contemporary stories, such as "Doom Town," a festival annually celebrates the survival of the human race by conducting riotous air raids. In "The Trans-Siberian Railway Comes to Whitehouse," a bar owner desperately clings to a new all-things-Russian theme to save himself from financial ruin. Other stories, set in the 1960s, recast the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy assassination, and Space Race in personal histories of the human heart that remind us what it takes to endure--both then, and now.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Doom town -- The Trans-Siberian Railway Comes to Whitehouse -- The Big Healy -- Commie Christmas -- A Kind of Tender Infinity -- We Wandered Ourselves Back to One -- Survival House -- Story of a Postcard -- Cherry Pie -- The World is Ending Yesterday.

Often humorous, always resonant, the ten stories in Survival House not only look back to the collective mind of doom in the atomic age of the 1950s and 1960s, but also address its legacy in our time--the emergence of new nuclear powers, polarizing politics, and the ever-tightening grip of corporations. In contemporary stories, such as "Doom Town," a festival annually celebrates the survival of the human race by conducting riotous air raids. In "The Trans-Siberian Railway Comes to Whitehouse," a bar owner desperately clings to a new all-things-Russian theme to save himself from financial ruin. Other stories, set in the 1960s, recast the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy assassination, and Space Race in personal histories of the human heart that remind us what it takes to endure--both then, and now.

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