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Shape of the Final Dog & Other Stories

by Hampton Fancher
Shape of the Final Dog & Other Stories

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ISBN13: 9780399158230
ISBN10: 0399158235
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Best known as the original screenwriter of Blade Runner, author Hampton Fancher makes his debut with this extraordinary collection that bears all of the hallmarks that have made him beloved to film fans. These are stories about people and places that exist just outside our perceptions of space and time: in “Narrowing the Divide,” an escaped lab rat winds up in a philosophical conversation with a man whose wife sleeps in the next room; in “Cargot,” a failed actor is reincarnated as a garden snail and avenges himself with a Hollywood producer’s wife; and in “The Black Weasel,” a washed-up bartender finds an unlikely traveling partner in a slow-witted drifter with a suspicious bankroll. These are also stories about survival and instinct, with elements of the absurd and the sublime. The Shape of the Final Dog is a rare literary work that is mordantly funny, deftly written, and bound to delight and entertain.

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“Blade Runner came out while I was still writing Neuromancer. I was about a third of the way into the manuscript. When I saw (the first twenty minutes of) Blade Runner, I figured my unfinished first novel was sunk, done for. Everyone would assume I’d copped my visual texture from this astonishingly fine-looking film.”

-William Gibson, author

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"Gary Gilmore, the director of Sundance [film festival], believes that what sets Fancher's film apart is its ability to reflect upon questions more often left to literature...others speak of him as a man whose wisdom and deep humanity make him an intuitive director. 'Hampton's great talent is for living,' his friend Barbara Hersey says. 'Hampton gets all kinds of people to believe in themselves and to dream out loud.'"-Elizabeth Rubin, The New Yorker

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“Hampton Fancher’s kaleidoscopic reality is delicately fractured, skewed, but rendered all the more true. Inhabitants of his world are both scheming strivers and wide-eyed dupes, shrewd as snakes and innocent as doves, who in all their strangeness churn up a wealth of tender feelings from the depths. The beguiling stories in The Shape of the Final Dog are set in a place where anything can happen—and things add up.”—Jessica Kerwin Jenkins, author of The Encyclopedia of the Exquisite

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“Hampton Fancher has worlds falling out of his sleeves. His fictions are full of irresistible stealthy voices, surreal U-turns, and vernacular wit—Buñuel meets Sherwood Anderson.”—Jonathan Lethem

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“Darkly funny, seductive, essential stories that pulse in the imagination. In these fearless high-wire trickster tales, Hampton Fancher offers something rare and beautiful; he writes as Nijinsky once danced, willing to risk it all.”—Mary-Beth Hughes, author of Double Happiness

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"Hampton Fancher's stories don't just tap dance at the edge of the abyss: they tap dance while juggling while wearing a crab costume while channeling Shakespeare. They are absurd and real and amazing."-Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances

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Praise for THE SHAPE OF THE FINAL DOG by Hampton Fancher: “Hampton Fancher’s kaleidoscopic reality is delicately fractured, skewed, but rendered all the more true. Inhabitants of his world are both scheming strivers and wide-eyed dupes, shrewd as snakes and innocent as doves, who in all their strangeness churn up a wealth of tender feelings from the depths. The beguiling stories in The Shape of the Final Dog are set in a place where anything can happen—and things add up.”—Jessica Kerwin Jenkins, author of The Encyclopedia of the Exquisite “Hampton Fancher has worlds falling out of his sleeves. His fictions are full of irresistible stealthy voices, surreal U-turns, and vernacular wit—Buñuel meets Sherwood Anderson.”—Jonathan Lethem “Darkly funny, seductive, essential stories that pulse in the imagination. In these fearless high-wire trickster tales, Hampton Fancher offers something rare and beautiful; he writes as Nijinsky once danced, willing to risk it all.”—Mary-Beth Hughes, author of Double Happiness "Hampton Fancher's stories don't just tap dance at the edge of the abyss: they tap dance while juggling while wearing a crab costume while channeling Shakespeare. They are absurd and real and amazing."—Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances


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Hampton Fancher is the original screenwriter for Blade Runner and the writer and director of The Minus Man (winner of the Grand Prix Jury Award, Montreal Film Festival). Born in East Los Angeles, he now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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ISBN:
9780399158230
Binding:
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Publication date:
09/13/2012
Publisher:
Blue Rider Press
Pages:
268
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Width:
6.00
Thickness:
1.00
Age Range:
from 18 and up
Grade Range:
from 12
Author:
Hampton Fancher
Subject:
Literature-A to Z

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