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Trailer Girl and Other Stories de Terese Svoboda

Trailer Girl and Other Stories

Autor Terese Svoboda
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 apr 2001
"I talk like a lady who knows what she wants" is how the vagrant begins her story in "Trailer Girl". As she struggles to rescue what she says is a wild girl hiding in the gully, the neighbors become more certain than ever that the child is imaginary -- until there's a murder. Stark and disturbing, "Trailer Girl" is the story of cycles of child abuse and the dream to escape them.

In "Psychic", a clairvoyant knows she's been hired by a murderer, in "Leadership" a tiny spaceship lands between a boy and his parents, in "Venice", a woman performs the Heimlich maneuver on an ex-husband, then flees by gondola, and in "White", a grandfather explains to his grandson how a family is like a collection of chicken parts. Frequently violent, always passionate, these often short short stories are full-strength, as strong and precise as poetry.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781582430850
ISBN-10: 1582430853
Pagini: 244
Dimensiuni: 150 x 225 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Counterpoint Press
Locul publicării:United States

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Cuprins

Trailer Girl
Sundress
I Dreamt He Fell Three Floors and Lived
Doll
Polio
Cave Life
Psychic
Electricity
Petrified Woman
Leadership
Party Girl
A Mama
Car Frogs
Water
What Did You Bring Me?
Lost the Baby
White

Recenzii

“You have to listen, carefully, to Terese Svoboda’s stories. You have to read them slowly, more than once, sounding the words this way and that, letting yourself interpret, not with logic alone, but using the tools of poetry–association, juxtaposition, metaphor. Even what’s left out can be significant. For these are not so much stories in the traditional sense as tangled situations, networks of convoluted yet precisely controlled language. And you don’t read through them, but into them, going deeper each time.”—Women’s Review of Books

“Trailer Girl has the surreal poetry of a nightmare. . . . Svoboda has written a book of genuine grace and beauty.”—New York Times Book Review

“Unnerve thyself: the violent and enthralling short stories in Terese Svoboda’s Trailer Girl detonate on contact.”—Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair

“The kind of satisfaction that one gets from [Svoboda’s] stories is quick and blinding, governed more by instinct than reason.”—Francie Lin, San Francisco Chronicle

“Compelling. . . . The language throughout is at once potent and oblique.”—Publishers Weekly

"Written in the style of dreamy prose poems about the alienated and edgy lives of the walking wounded, these stories shimmer and dazzle with an intensity that sometimes creates the feeling of the world as a floating, melting cloud of illusion."—Cheryl Reeves, Feminist Review