Ways to Disappear: Stories - Couverture souple

Lancelotta, Victoria

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1573662011 ISBN 13 : 9781573662017

Editeur : Fiction Collective Two, 2023

Synopsis

Winner of FC2's Catherine Doctorow Prize in Innovative Fiction

Some disappearances are chosen. Others are survived.

The stories in Victoria Lancelotta's Ways to Disappear excavate the unexamined places between dread and desire, promise and threat, where the body is both prison and salvation. Populated by the grieving and the exultant and those who see no difference between the two, by men and women who are only a little bit broken and boys and girls who can't wait to be, by souls untethered, rootless, yet bound by blood and flesh, Lancelotta's characters are driven by the irresistible need to be a bigger part of the worlds they each inhabit, by turns strange and commonplace. In language lush and jagged, never sentimental, these stories scrutinize the exhaustion and enchantment of the everyday: houses seething with resentment and devotion, cars dream-full and hurtling the children in them into a world they think they know but can't imagine; front porches, back yards, luxury hotels, and truck stops. Lancelotta understands that sometimes people check their wounds not to see if they've healed, but to be sure they're still there.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Victoria Lancelotta is author of Here in the World: 13 Stories, and the novels Far and Coeurs Blesses. Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. She is the recipient of a Tennessee Individual Artist Fellowship, multiple Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grants, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She lives in Frederick MD.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fiction Collective Two
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1573662011
• ISBN 13: 9781573662017
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 262
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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