Ken Kalfus
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In a future where sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders, Ron Patterson begins to imagine a stable life for himself, but when political divisions become resurgent, he is suddenly on dangerous and uncertain ground"--
2) Thirst
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Stories by a writer making a debut in fiction. In Invisible Malls, Marco Polo explains a shopping mall to a Mongol emperor, in Bouquet, an Irish girl in Paris loses her innocence, and Cats in Space is on cruel children who launch a balloon with a kitten.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Joyce and Marshall each think the other is killed on September 11-and must swallow their disappointment when the other arrives home. As their bitter divorce is further complicated by anthrax scares, suicide bombs, and foreign wars, they suffer, in ways unexpectedly personal and increasingly ludicrous, the many strange ravages of our time. In this astonishing black comedy, Kalfus suggests how our nation's public calamities have encroached upon our...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed short story and novella collection by "a virtuoso of the dismal comedy of Soviet life"-and the basis for the HBO film PU-239 (The New York Times).
Ken Kalfus traverses a century of Russian history in tales that range from hair-raising to comic to fabulous. The astonishing title story follows a doomed nuclear power plant worker as he attempts to hawk plutonium in Moscow's black market. In "Budyonnovsk," a young man hopes that the takeover...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A British astronomer, Thayer, high on Darwin and other progressive scientists of [his] age, has come to believe that beings more highly evolved than us are alive on Mars (he has evidence) and that there will be a perfect moment in which we can signal to them that we are here, too. He gets the support and funding for a massive project to build the Equilateral, a triangle with sides hundreds of miles long, in the desert of Egypt in time for that perfect...
7) Pu-239
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
While working at a nuclear power plant, Timofey is exposed to a deadly dose of radiation while trying to avert a plant disaster. Instead of rewarding Timofey for his efforts, the plant treats him as a scapegoat, offering no compensation to him or his family. Desperate to provide security for his wife and son, Timofey steals a small amount of PU-239 - weapons-grade- plutonium - and heads to Moscow to sell it on the black market. Timofey struggles to...
