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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth
- Author
- Kevin Wilson
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Publish Date
- 19 March 2026
- Run Time
- 6 hours 58 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Southern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully inventive stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.
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- Author
- Kevin Wilson
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 6 hours 58 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 March 2026
- ISBN
- 9781004229437
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Genre
- Short stories, Fiction: general and literary, Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Sense of place
Synopsis
Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of the Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider--a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a story singled out by Ann Patchett for Ploughshares, a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted.Southern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully inventive stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.
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