01399cam a2200313 i 4500 282224188 TxGeo 20170110120000.0 160930s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016037523 9780399562884 hbk. 0399562885 hbk. (OCoLC)957645681 TxGeo rda Moshfegh, Ottessa. Short stories Selections. Homesick for another world : stories / Ottessa Moshfegh. New York, NY : Penguin Press, 2017. 294 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Bettering myeslf -- Mr. Wu -- Malibu -- The weirdos -- A dark and winding road -- No place for good people -- Slumming -- An honest woman -- The beach boy -- Nothing ever happens here -- Dancing in the moonlight -- The surrogate -- The locked room -- A better place. "In 14 expertly crafted stories, Moshfegh examines charact ers and situations too weird to be real and too real to be fiction, with themes of alienation, ennui, displacement, sexual neuroses, and addiction"--Publisher's Weekly. 20170123. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Short stories. QS5