Universal love : stories / Alexander Weinstein.
By: Weinstein, Alexander [author.].
Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, ©2020Edition: First edition.Description: 224 p: 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781250144355.Uniform titles: Short stories. Selections Subject(s): Fantasy fiction, American -- 21st century | Short stories, American -- 21st centuryGenre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | PS3623.E4324467 A6 2020 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000016821 |
"Author of Children of the New World"--Dust jacket.
The Year of Nostalgia -- Beijing -- Comfort Porn -- We Only Wanted Their Happiness -- Purple Heart -- True Love Testimonials -- Childhood -- Sanctuary -- Infinite Realities -- Mountain Song -- Islanders.
"Universal Love welcomes readers to a near-future world where our everyday technologies have fundamentally altered the possibilities and limits of how we love one another. In these gripping stories, a young boy tries to understand what keeps his father tethered to the drowned city they call home. A daughter gets to know her dead mother's hologram better than she ever knew her living mother. And, at a time when unpleasant memories can be erased, a man undergoes electronic surgery to have his depression, and his past, forever removed. In an age when technology offers the easiest cures for loneliness, these characters must wrestle with what it means to stay human in an increasingly cybernetic future, and how love can endure even the most alluring upgrades. In the vein of Weinstein's critically-acclaimed first collection, Universal Love is a visionary book, written with one foot in the real world and one stepping bravely into the future"--