A crowd of dead people tries to hitchhike in the rain. A husband and wife awake to find that he has transformed into a pickle and she into a mango. A member of a rock star's entourage has recently been promoted to become keeper of the sunglasses. A man living in an elevator opens his mouth to release a swarm of flies. In Broken Accidents, Phlip Arima presents fictions in which the mundane and the surreal collide, and humour and sadness paint opposite sides of a revolving door. Filled with absurd conversations, monologues and sardonic descriptions of warped realities, Broken Accidents twists and squirms with incisive metaphor yet maintains a child-like wonder and curiosity.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.54
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781459309036
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.A536
- LCCN Item number
- B76 2003eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (157 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00213793 (OCoLC)431529711 (CaOOCEL)407944
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- crash 7
- (Happy Birthday) 10
- My Decisions 12
- Naked 16
- A Better Way 20
- Dead Company 26
- Seizure 32
- Waiting for a Friend 36
- Yucky 42
- Chicken Noodle Soup 50
- Togetherness 58
- The Music Lover 62
- Intimacy 68
- All the Same 70
- Pickled Mango 78
- stats 8
- In the Grey 84
- Trafficked 92
- Blue Denim 96
- Dropping Out 104
- Yawn 108
- Just Me 112
- Wireless 116
- The importance of Sunglasses 120
- Entertainment 124
- Punk is Beat 126
- Answers 130
- The Key 136
- Without a Splash 140
- Had Enough 144
- Thirst 150
