TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nelson,Randy F.
TI  - The imaginary lives of mechanical men: stories
SN  - 9780820328454
AV  - PS 3614.E4493 .Im16 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Athens
PB  - University of Georgia Press
KW  - Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction
N1  - Mechanical men -- They have replaceable valves and filters: The cave ; Here's a shot of us at the Grand Canyon ; Food is fuel ; Abuduction ; The guardian -- The ticking and tocking of their hearts: Cutters ; Breaker ; River story ; In the picking room -- Two who drowned: Refiner's fire ; Pulp life -- One who got away: Escape
N2  - The mechanical men in these narratives--Industrial Age holdovers, outsiders in want of relevance and respect, or overwhelmed people who confuse the certainties of one reality with the doubts of another--are cut off in some way from contemporary culture
ER  -