"Parkinson's prose flows with a subtle, musical rhythm that only
prose can achieve, and then rarely... Every sentence, "every"
sentence, is exquisite."--Debrah Lechner, "Hayden's Ferry
Review"
"Aimee Parkison most often begins softly, slowly stripping away
each layer of social interaction to get at what is numinous and
frightening and necessary about living in the real world. These are
stories both about the difficulty and the intense suddenness of
human connection, about the profound link that exists between being
in love and being alone."--Brian Evenson
"Parkison is a storyteller, conjuring characters who harbor
festering secrets, lurid urgencies, and violent compulsions. Like
Joyce Carol Oates, Parkison deftly works the caricatures of
Southern Gothicism into terrifying clarity."--Joseph Dewey, "The
Review of Contemporary Fiction"
From "The Glass Girl":
"On certain evenings in dark motels, she could transform her lip
into the edge of the bottle, imagining her face was made of amber
glass and the men paused above her only to take a drink of breath.
Over the years, men drank and drank until there were only two sips
left inside. They began sucking the air out of the glass that grew
warm in the wrong places because of heat radiating off their hands.
The men's breath along with white feathers fell over autumn winds
drifting through open windows."
In this collection, Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize-winner Aimee
Parkison's characters struggle to understand what happens when the
innocent party becomes the guilty party. With magical realist
flair, secrets are aired with dirty laundry, but the stains never
come clean. Carol Anshaw writes, "Aimee Parkison offers a distinct
new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore
childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of
adults who emerge from this private geography."
Aimee Parkison has an MFA from Cornell University. She is
associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina
at Charlotte, where she teaches creative writing.
General
Imprint: |
B O a Editions, Limited
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
American Readers Series, 17 |
Release date: |
April 2012 |
First published: |
April 2012 |
Authors: |
Aimee Parkison
|
Dimensions: |
203 x 139 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
200 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-934414-86-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Special features >
Short stories
|
LSN: |
1-934414-86-7 |
Barcode: |
9781934414866 |
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