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Rosenblatt, Sari

 
9781609387440: Father Guards the Sheep
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1609387449 ISBN 13 : 9781609387440
Editeur : University of Iowa Press, 2020

Synopsis

In Sari Rosenblatt's collection, by turns tender and hilarious, we see fathers who are bullies and nervous watchdogs, haunted by their own pasts and fear of the future they may never see. And who do their daughters become? A substitute teacher who encounters mouthy students who believe she's not real. Another lands a job on her city's arson squad, researching derelict properties their owners might want to burn. A beleaguered mother, humiliated by the PTA's queen bee, finds solace in an ancient piece of caramel candy. "I keep sucking," she says, "until some flavor, no longer caramel, comes out." In the end, this is what all these finely wrought characters want: to wring sweetness from what's been passed down to them.

Rosenblatt's comic sensibility, so present in these stories, entertains and consoles, while seeming to say to her readers: you might as well laugh.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sari Rosenblatt has published stories in the Iowa Review and is winner of the short-story awards from Glimmer Train, New Millennium Writings, Ms Magazine, and Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry. She holds and MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She teaches fiction writing at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, Connecticut. She lives in Middletown, Connecticut.

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Éditeur
University of Iowa Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1609387449
ISBN 13 
9781609387440
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
152
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