TY - BOOK AU - Mayo,Wendell TI - Survival house: stories SN - 9781622882083 AV - PS3563 .S878 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - Nacogdoches, Texas PB - Stephen F. Austin State University Press KW - Short stories, American KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1841249&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -