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The most common phrase in print is «cover before striking,» a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers.<br> <br> Uppal's characters in <i>Cover Before Striking</i> are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. The pyromaniac at the heart of the title story – winner of the Gloria Vanderbilt Short Fiction Prize – desperately uses fire to reconnect with lost lovers and family members. In «Vertigo,» an injured Olympic athlete becomes a research guinea pig in a surreal scientific experiment. In «The Boy Next Door,» a teenager recounts how her mother took her and fled Canada for Brazil, along with the local Catholic priest.<br> <br> Implacable and just a little unhinged, the stories of <i>Cover Before Striking</i> each move toward that moment of contact when the sparks begin to fly, when destruction and beauty seem to blur together. With this collection, Priscila Uppal offers the literary equivalent of playing with fire.

Полный вариант заголовка: «An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature and Egyptian antiquities : Including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts / By Thomas Young».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Minutes of evidence taken before a select committee : appointed by the House of Commons, to inquire into the state of the police of the Metropolis : with notes, observations, and a preface / by a Magistrate of the County of Middlesex».

Полный вариант заголовка: «A history of inventions and discoveries : alphabetically arranged / by Francis Sellon White».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The history of the discovery and conquest of the Canary Islands : translated from a Spanish manuscript, lately found in the island of Palma : with an enquiry into the origin of the ancient inhabitants : to which is added, a dsescription of the Canary Islands, including the modern history of the inhabitants, and an account of their manners, customs, trade, & c. / by George Glas».