Still Life with Plums - Short Stories (Paperback)

Still Life with Plums is a vibrant collection of short stories that weaves together the outwardly distant lives of several strangers. With heaping doses of dark humor and magical realism, these ten stories enliven a cast of characters carefully speckled throughout the southern portion of the United States. From West Virginians, to Texans and Latinos, Still Life with Plums circles the paths of a Black-Irish West Virginian, a wise-cracking dog groomer, an emasculated husband, a Guatemalan widow, a Japanese-Latin-American poster child from WWII, and a meticulous predator. Marie Manilla's accessible prose is deceptively layered, as she births and wrestles this quirky ensemble that unflinchingly probes the human psyche, while affirming a concrete connection to a shared place and identity.

General

Imprint:	West Virginia University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	October 2010
Authors:	Marie Manilla
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-933202-60-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN:	1-933202-60-2
Barcode:	9781933202600

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