The World of Glass - Couverture souple

Wildman, Eugene

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0268019711 ISBN 13 : 9780268019716

Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2003

Synopsis

Eugene Wildman's latest collection offers a wide-ranging tour of the final decades of the twentieth century. In a series of related stories, The World of Glass touches on the crucial issues and events that came to define and shape this period, including the corrosive impact of the Vietnam War. Through his protagonist, Todd White, Wildman explores the theme of spiritual isolation in a variety of gritty settings.

Issues of identity also play a key role in Wildman's tightly-drawn stories, with look-alikes and the erotic attraction of the "Other" featured in pieces such as "Songbird," in which there are two Juliets, and in a sense a third, and "The Waning of the Middle Ages," in which a new tenant moves into Saul Bellow's old apartment. Wildman's stories are replete with the betrayal of love and lovers. The wounds inflicted by and for love haunt his characters, and yet they try vainly to hold on to love.

The stories in The World of Glass, though classic in the deepest sense, are also, in their varied way, distinctive and contemporary. This first-rate collection is the work of a powerful and accomplished writer.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eugene Wildman directs the creative writing program at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0268019711
• ISBN 13: 9780268019716
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 172
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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