The Brutal Language of Love: Stories

ISBN-13: 9781416592716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 224 str.

Alicia Erian

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Alicia Erian's characters are brave, disarming, affectionate, and deeply flawed. They inhabit the not-so-very-wide space between a good intention and a bad outcome. In "Alcatraz," we meet a middle-school spelling champion who spends her afternoons taking baths with the boy next door. In "Almonds and Cherries," a young woman turns an unexpectedly arousing bra-shopping experience into a short film, with ramifications for everyone around her. In "On the Occasion of My Ruination," a college-bound student plots to lose her virginity to a pizza parlor waiter. The Brutal Language of Love challenges traditional notions of right and wrong with what has become Erian's signature -- an achingly stylish humor and a deep understanding of the brutal truth about human nature. These surprising, provocative, and deeply resonant stories marked the emergence of a major talent

In these nine stunning stories, Erian explores that peculiar part of the psyche that makes people do things when they know better. The powerful, unsettling stories in "The Brutal Language of Love" mark the emergence of a major new talent.