Swim: Stories of the Sixties - Couverture souple

Scofield, Sandra

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1930835183 ISBN 13 : 9781930835184

Editeur : Wellstone Press, 2017

Synopsis

Swim: Stories of the Sixties

In three long stories, Scofield follows the journey of a young homeless woman searching for selfhood, purpose, and belonging.

It's the early Sixties. The Grateful Dead and free love are still around the corner. But the young woman in these three stories knows that sex is the coin of the realm. From Mexico to Mykonos, she's looking for a place to light, and she thinks she'll know when she's finally home. For sure she knows she doesn't want men to tell her how to live. She doesn't even want them saying her name.

In "Oh Baby Oh" the woman--let's call her "Baby"--hitchhikes from New York to San Francisco, to join a young man she met three years earlier. He wants to settle down in a conventional way, but she hopes he'll settle for her company long enough for her to plan her own future. She learns that her underlying contempt for an unsophisticated man is a sure way to be seen as contemptuous herself. Only the kindness of a young couple saves her from despair.

In "An Easy Pass" Baby spends a day at a tienta--the testing of brave bulls--on a bullfighter's ranch. There, she thinks she knows her place, and feels safe. After all, she amuses her host, and asks nothing of him, so feels superior to the other women who have gathered at the ranch. But when she capes a calf in the ring, her powerful host, with his cruel sense of play, lets her know where she stands in the world where she does not belong.

Finally, on the island of Mykonos, long before it became an Adriatic hot spot, Baby offers her friendship and guidance to two young soldiers on holiday. She helps them find a room, the best food, the best beach, and asks for nothing but their company. Only the soldiers are Oklahoma hardshell Baptist Christians. Confounded by Baby's insouciance, they scheme to save her from a rootless life, which sends her, in a fit of angry independence, straight out to sea

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sandra Scofield was born and raised in west Texas, lived for 30 years in Southern Oregon, and now divides her time between Missoula, Montana, and Portland, Oregon. She is the author of seven novels, a memoir, a popular craft book for writers-The Scene Book, and most recently, a book of essays about family. Her second craft book, about novel revision, is forthcoming Fall 2017 from Penguin Press. Her many literary awards include an American Book Award and a fiction award from the Texas Institute of Letters; a fiction award from The American Aademy of Arts and Letters, and The American Book Award. She has also received an NEA/USIA New American Writing Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Oregon Institute of Letters, and the Oregon Arts Council. Three of her books were NYT Notable Books of the Year. Her most recent book, Mysteries of Love and Grief, was runner-up for the Willa Cather Women Writing the West Award (2016). Scofield has been on the faculty of the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival for more than twenty years, and is a faculty member of the Pine Manor Solstice Creative Writing Program since 2007. She is also a painter. sandrajscofield.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wellstone Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1930835183
• ISBN 13: 9781930835184
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 134
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible