We look forward to seeing you on your next visit to the library. Find a location near you.

The Fat Artist and Other Stories
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)

Book Cover
Your Rating: 0 stars
Star rating for

Published:
Tantor Media, Inc 2016
Status:
Available from OverDrive

Description

Prize-winning author Benjamin Hale's fiction abounds with a love of language and a wild joy for storytelling. In prose alternately stark, lush and hallucinatory, occasionally nightmarish and often absurd, the seven stories in this collection are suffused with fear and desire, introducing us to a company of indelible characters reeling with love, jealousy, megalomania, and despair.
As in his debut novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, the voices in these stories speak from the margins: a dominatrix whose longtime client, a U.S. congressman, drops dead during a tryst in a hotel room; an addict in precarious recovery who lands a job driving a truck full of live squid; a heartbroken performance artist who attempts to eat himself to death as a work of art. From underground radicals hiding in Morocco to an aging hippy in Colorado in the summer before 9/11 to a young drag queen in New York at the cusp of the AIDS crisis, these stories rove freely across time and place, carried by haunting, peculiar narratives that form the vast tapestry of American life.

Also in This Series

Formats

OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
Works on MP3 Players, PCs, and Macs. Some mobile devices may require an application to be installed.
OverDrive Listen
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.

More Like This

Other Editions and Formats

More Copies In LINK+

Loading LINK+ Copies...

More Details

Format:
OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen
Edition:
Unabridged
Street Date:
05/17/2016
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781515925019

Reviews from GoodReads

Loading GoodReads Reviews.

Citations

APA Citation (style guide)

Benjamin Hale. (2016). The Fat Artist and Other Stories. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Benjamin Hale. 2016. The Fat Artist and Other Stories. Tantor Media, Inc.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Benjamin Hale, The Fat Artist and Other Stories. Tantor Media, Inc, 2016.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Benjamin Hale. The Fat Artist and Other Stories. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc, 2016.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.

Copy Details

LibraryOwnedAvailable
Shared Digital Collection11

Staff View

Grouped Work ID:
0bacdd63-064e-c69b-0ed8-2cd8dab2ab2e
Go To Grouped Work

QR Code

API Extraction Dates

Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Jun 12, 2018 17:39:26
Date Updated:
Aug 20, 2024 18:36:02
Last Metadata Check:
Nov 10, 2024 09:42:07
Last Metadata Change:
Oct 06, 2024 06:59:51
Last Availability Check:
Nov 10, 2024 09:42:11
Last Availability Change:
Feb 28, 2022 12:58:12
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Nov 10, 2024 03:24:45

OverDrive Product Record

images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1219-1/{348901C3-8BDE-4A5C-9FD8-AB2637DDB780}IMG100.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1219-1/{348901C3-8BDE-4A5C-9FD8-AB2637DDB780}IMG200.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1219-1/{348901C3-8BDE-4A5C-9FD8-AB2637DDB780}IMG150.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1219-1/{348901C3-8BDE-4A5C-9FD8-AB2637DDB780}IMG400.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: 8
            • value: tantor_audio#9781515975014
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781515925019
      • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
      • id: audiobook-mp3
      • identifiers:
            • type: 8
            • value: tantor_audio#9781515975014
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781515925019
      • name: OverDrive Listen
      • id: audiobook-overdrive
edition
Unabridged
mediaType
Audiobook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: Benjamin Hale
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
The Fat Artist and Other Stories
dateAdded
2016-06-30T02:28:00Z
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=141&titleID=2703409
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
          • id: 1151
sortTitle
Fat Artist and Other Stories
crossRefId
2703409
id
348901C3-8BDE-4A5C-9FD8-AB2637DDB780
starRating
3.8

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain
False
formats
      • duration: 09:49:50
      • fileName: TheFatArtistandOther_9781515975014_2703409
      • partCount: 11
      • fileSize: 283549190
      • identifiers:
            • audience: retailer
            • type: 8
            • value: tantor_audio#9781515975014
            • audience: library
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781515925019
      • rights:
            • type: PlayOnPC
            • value: 1
            • type: PlayOnPCCount
            • value: -1
            • type: BurnToCD
            • value: 1
            • type: BurnToCDCount
            • value: -1
            • type: PlayOnPM
            • value: 1
            • type: TransferToSDMI
            • value: 1
            • type: TransferToNonSDMI
            • value: 1
            • type: TransferCount
            • value: -1
            • type: CollaborativePlay
            • value: 0
            • type: PublicPerformance
            • value: 0
            • type: TranscodeToAAC
            • value: 1
      • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: audiobook-mp3
      • onSaleDate: 5/17/2016
      • samples:
            • source: Part 1
            • formatType: audiobook-mp3
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1219-1/2703409-TheFatArtistAndOtherStories.mp3
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=348901c3-8bde-4a5c-9fd8-ab2637ddb780&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • duration: 09:49:54
      • fileName: multipart.odm
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 283155429
      • identifiers:
            • audience: retailer
            • type: 8
            • value: tantor_audio#9781515975014
            • audience: library
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781515925019
      • name: OverDrive Listen
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: audiobook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 5/17/2016
      • samples:
            • source: Part 1
            • formatType: audiobook-mp3
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1219-1/2703409-TheFatArtistAndOtherStories.mp3
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=348901c3-8bde-4a5c-9fd8-ab2637ddb780&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
keywords
      • value: Storytelling
creators
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Hale, Benjamin
      • name: Benjamin Hale
      • role: Narrator
      • fileAs: Cronin, James Patrick
      • name: James Patrick Cronin
imprint
Tantor Media
publishDate
2016-05-17T00:00:00Z
edition
Unabridged
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
The Fat Artist and Other Stories
fullDescription
Prize-winning author Benjamin Hale's fiction abounds with a love of language and a wild joy for storytelling. In prose alternately stark, lush and hallucinatory, occasionally nightmarish and often absurd, the seven stories in this collection are suffused with fear and desire, introducing us to a company of indelible characters reeling with love, jealousy, megalomania, and despair.
As in his debut novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, the voices in these stories speak from the margins: a dominatrix whose longtime client, a U.S. congressman, drops dead during a tryst in a hotel room; an addict in precarious recovery who lands a job driving a truck full of live squid; a heartbroken performance artist who attempts to eat himself to death as a work of art. From underground radicals hiding in Morocco to an aging hippy in Colorado in the summer before 9/11 to a young drag queen in New York at the cusp of the AIDS crisis, these stories rove freely across time and place, carried by haunting, peculiar narratives that form the vast tapestry of American life.
reviews
      • premium: True
      • source: Publisher's Weekly
      • content:

        Starred review from May 16, 2016
        Plunging into the seven stories in Hale's (The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore) first collection is like putting a finger into somebody else's navel: something rank and organic and awfully familiar is there. Hale's well-hewn, often violent tales are saturated with sadness and full of strange, marginal folk, but the thoughts, desires, and failures of these oddball characters are acutely recognizable. In "Don't Worry Baby," washed-up radicals troll the world, still tripping even with a baby in tow. In "If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day," several sweet losers—young, middle-aged, and old alike—attempt murder and flee the scene, one naked and painted silver. There are stories featuring drag queens, a dominatrix, a father who cracks the skull of his drugged-out kid with a rolling pin, a man who drives a truck full of eels into a cow, and the obese performance artist of the book's title, who eats himself to death. Hale's hapless souls are pretty much all pathetic, but the reader comes away grateful for the sincerity of their melancholy quests to find meaning, love, and the purposes of their ill-fated lives. They mostly fail, some tragically, but not before leaving behind tidbits of wisdom about what it means to be human. This book is at once absurd, morbid, melancholy, ridiculous, and disturbing. It is also erudite and very nearly pretentious, all of which, for like-minded skeptics, pretty much sums up American life around the turn of the 21st century. Agent: Brian DeFiore, DeFiore and Company.

popularity
9
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/348901c3-8bde-4a5c-9fd8-ab2637ddb780/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
    • shareInLibby:
        • href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=MUApAMShdiw
        • type: text/HTML
id
348901c3-8bde-4a5c-9fd8-ab2637ddb780
starRating
3.8
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1219-1/{348901C3-8BDE-4A5C-9FD8-AB2637DDB780}IMG100.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1219-1/{348901C3-8BDE-4A5C-9FD8-AB2637DDB780}IMG200.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1219-1/{348901C3-8BDE-4A5C-9FD8-AB2637DDB780}IMG150.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1219-1/{348901C3-8BDE-4A5C-9FD8-AB2637DDB780}IMG400.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
subjects
      • value: Fiction
      • value: Literature
      • value: Short Stories
publishDateText
05/17/2016
mediaType
Audiobook
shortDescription
Prize-winning author Benjamin Hale's fiction abounds with a love of language and a wild joy for storytelling. In prose alternately stark, lush and hallucinatory, occasionally nightmarish and often absurd, the seven stories in this collection are suffused with fear and desire, introducing us to a company of indelible characters reeling with love, jealousy, megalomania, and despair.
As in his debut novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, the voices in these stories speak from the margins: a dominatrix whose longtime client, a U.S. congressman, drops dead during a tryst in a hotel room; an addict in precarious recovery who lands a job driving a truck full of live squid; a heartbroken performance artist who attempts to eat himself to death as a work of art. From underground radicals hiding in Morocco to an aging hippy in Colorado in the summer before 9/11 to a young drag queen in New York at the cusp of the AIDS crisis, these stories rove freely across time and place,...
sortTitle
Fat Artist and Other Stories
crossRefId
2703409
publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
bisacCodes
      • code: FIC000000
      • description: Fiction / General
      • code: FIC019000
      • description: Fiction / Literary
      • code: FIC029000
      • description: Fiction / Short Stories (single author)