Matthew Kirkpatrick's debut, Light without Heat, is an inventive, surprising collection of short stories full of odd, marginal characters rendered with surreal humor and lyrical, often beautiful language. Formally playful, these stories take the shape of biographies, instructions, glossaries, and diagrams, all ultimately in the service of depicting characters with emotional intensity. Stories in the collection explore the flawed nature of memory, workplace malaise, the isolation of home, and the last throes of ending love. No two stories in Light without Heat are the same, yet all of them work toward sharing human experience in new, innovative ways.
- ISBN13 9781573661669
- Publish Date 30 March 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher The University of Alabama Press
- Imprint Fiction Collective Two
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English