Death Is Not an Option: Stories - Couverture souple

Rivecca, Suzanne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393339904 ISBN 13 : 9780393339901

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2011

Synopsis

In these stories, a teacher obsesses over a student who comes to class with scratch marks on his face; a Catholic girl graduating high school finds a warped kind of redemption in her school's contrived class rituals; and a woman looking to rent a house is sucked into a strangely inappropriate correspondence with one of the landlords. These are just a few of the powerful plotlines in Suzanne Rivecca's gorgeously wrought collection. From a college student who adopts a false hippie persona to find love, to a young memoirist who bumps up against a sexually obsessed fan, the characters in these fiercely original tales grapple with what it means to be honest with themselves and the world.

These stories explode "with piercing insight . . . illuminating the dangerous dance between victims and saviors. [They] deliver us to the edge of grief, that precarious place where the moral compass spins--where codes of love and law and religion fail. Mercy here depends on a tiger's sublime grace, our capacity to resist deeper harm, and the right of every broken being to remain silent" (Melanie Rae Thon).

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Suzanne Rivecca's fiction has appeared in Best New American Voices 2009, among other publications. A winner of the Pushcart Prize and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she lives in San Francisco.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393339904
• ISBN 13: 9780393339901
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 226
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible