Bliss and Other Short Stories

ISBN-13: 9780803232617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 136 str.

Ted Gilley

Opis

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, this daring collection of nine stories introduces readers to an edgy vision and a world in which certainties are tested and found wanting. A Cambodian refugee negotiates the icy waters of American social and sexual life. A young couple seeks peak experiences to escape grief, only to discover that they ve brought it along with them. A teenage girl, unable to face the imminent end of her grandfather s life, risks her own life in an impulsive act. A man s fragile hold on reality becomes the key to his finding, albeit through a terrifying labyrinth, his heart s desire. The characters in Bliss and Other Short Stories must find their way to a truth that, though less than perfect, is one they can live with. Finding bliss, it seems, is as much about pain as about pleasure, and in Ted Gilley s writing the discovery is always exquisite."