Bang Crunch

In Neil Smith’s nine stories, average people find themselves in decidedly unusual situations, as the mundane and the fantastic collide. A woman mourning the loss of her husband finds solace in talking to his ashes, entombed in a curling stone. The title story zeroes in on a girl with Fred Hoyle syndrome, whose age expands and contracts like the universe. The members of a support group for people with benign tumors begin to suspect that their meekness has caused their medical woes.

Bang Crunch creates an extraordinary world inhabited by all-too-human characters, and heralds the arrival of a literary talent with an unfailing, exacting concern for the profundities of our lives.

• Author
• Neil Smith

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 242

• Publisher
• Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-307-38610-6

• EAN
• 9780307386106

• Genres
• fiction, canada, anthologies, contemporary

• Release date
• 2008