Set among the spinning cogs and wheels of a lavish dinner club for the -gastronomical Elect, - The Ruins is a black-eyed, Machiavellian fairy tale for adults, a gleeful cautionary discourse on ambition and ingratitude, and the penalties for disbelief in those forces within oneself.
Like all fairy tales, it turns on subjection-the increasingly comic and catastrophic subjection of -our hero, Tom, - a high-minded and half-starved shoeshine boy. Tom shifts for himself in a dank and vaguely apocalyptic city where -the days come and go in a flat, lurid tide, noon and midnight like...
Set among the spinning cogs and wheels of a lavish dinner club for the -gastronomical Elect, - The Ruins is a black-eyed, Machiavellian fair...
In "The Bear, " the first of three novellas to comprise her forthcoming "Wilderness Trilogy," a sensible mid-level insurance adjuster, revisiting his childhood summer camp, meets his nemesis in the form of a headstrong and unaccountable bear. By turns antic, poignant, wry, "The Bear" offers an artful meditation on the crisis of otherness and the unreckoned cost of control.
"A riot." --Annie Dillard
In "The Bear, " the first of three novellas to comprise her forthcoming "Wilderness Trilogy," a sensible mid-level insurance adjuster, revisiting h...
""One arrives like spittle landing: an emptiness that clings.""
Say you weren't of this world but wanted to be...what would you give, how would you know you'd arrived?
Lily is an outsider who'll do anything to get in...Francis Steerlock, a middle-aged drifter with a ready smile, hides a hopeless obsession...Sonia, a young hitch-hiker, challenges Francis in an elaborate game of hide-and-seek... elderly Mrs. Stoppit, riven by loneliness, develops an ominous condition...Queenie's pre-adolescent fascination with the elusive Sonia leads her-and her little brother Tick-across the safe...
""One arrives like spittle landing: an emptiness that clings.""
Say you weren't of this world but wanted to be...what would you give, how would ...
