In this Book

Full Metal Jhacket

Book
Matthew Derby
2014
Published by: University of Michigan Press
Series: 21St Century Prose
summary
Two boys discover that the title of their stop-motion animated film about Vietnam has been taken by director Stanley Kubrick. A 150-year-old woman on the run from the government is tracked down by the company who extended her life. A military contractor carrying his robot son in a gym bag struggles to find his way out of the Nigerian delta during a bloody civil war. The wife of an up-and-coming politician grieves his infidelity by prowling rooftops with a sniper rifle. Following his celebrated debut collection, Super Flat Times, Matthew Derby delivers a disturbing new set of stories that plunges us into a lonely heartland of misfits, outcasts, and would-be assassins who lurk in the shadows, searching for connection and meaning in all the wrong places.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title Page

pp. i-iii

Copyright Page

pp. iv

Dedication

pp. v-vi

Contents

pp. vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp. ix-x

1. January in December

pp. 1-17

2. Dokken

pp. 18-28

3. The Snipe

pp. 29-45

4. Full Metal Jhacket

pp. 46-67

5. The Past, Uncorrected

pp. 68-78

6. Thirty Years of Prosperity for Every Fifteen Years of Hard Work

pp. 79-92

7. Yeti

pp. 93-101

8. How the Rebels Took Port Harcourt

pp. 102-116

9. Heightmap of Her Countenance

pp. 117-126

10. KraftMark

pp. 127-137

11. Walden Galleria Prayer

pp. 138-144

Books in the Series

pp. 145
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