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Liliane's Balcony: A Novella of Fallingwater

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Availability:In StockContributor:Kelcey ParkerPublish date:2013-10-01Pages:216
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rose Metal PressISBN-13:9780988764538ISBN-10:988764539UPC:9780988764538Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Biographical, Literary, HistoricalBook Topic:20th CenturyAward:2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal Winner - Literary Fiction Award|2013 IndieFab awards Silver Medal Winner - Literary AwardSize:7.90 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC9VMQ87X5
Fiction. LILIANE'S BALCONY is a multi-voiced novella-in-flash set at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. Built for Pittsburgh merchants E.J. and Liliane Kaufmann in 1935, the house is as much a character as it is a setting. One September night in 1952, Liliane Kaufmann--tired of her husband's infidelities--overdoses on pain pills in her bedroom. From there, LILIANE'S BALCONY alternates Mrs. Kaufmann's mostly true story with the fictional narratives of four modern-day tourists who arrive at the historic home in the midst of their own personal crises, all of which culminate on Mrs. Kaufmann's over-sized, cantilevered balcony. With its ghosts, motorcycles, portraits, Vikings, failed relationships, and many layered voices, Kelcey Parker's LILIANE'S BALCONY is as dizzying and intricately beautiful as the architectural wonder in which it is set.

LILIANE'S BALCONY is as layered and audacious as the house at the center of the novella. Parker dances effortlessly between present and past, fact and fiction, nature and interior, lovers and out-of-lovers. The story that emerges is moving and precariously beautiful: a book that in lesser hands might have come toppling down. In Parker's, it's a triumph.--Caitlin Horrocks

The latest from Parker is an inventive novella hybrid, a mix of prose and poetry, past and present, heartbreak and humor. At the core is Liliane Kaufmann, the wife and first cousin of the philandering Edgar Kaufmann, who commissioned architect Frank Lloyd Wright to create the audacious Fallingwater, a Pennsylvania house built over a waterfall. Rippling out from the couple is a cast of characters spanning centuries. Without introduction or background, a different voice narrates each chapter as the iconic home itself becomes a central character. Interspersing fiction with fact (although fact outweighs fiction in this well-researched story), Parker reveals the tragic life of strong, intelligent Liliane, who is slowly eroded by a complicated marriage gone toxic. Adding dimension to her portrayal are three other women, all at different points of self-discovery, all potentially bound for a similar fate as Liliane. Not unlike Fallingwater's structure, which masterfully balances the man-made with the natural, Parker sculpts and controls myriad, nearly unwieldy elements to construct a driven plot that illuminates the perched house and those who live within it.--Katherine Fronk, Booklist
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rose Metal PressISBN-13:9780988764538ISBN-10:988764539UPC:9780988764538Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Biographical, Literary, HistoricalBook Topic:20th CenturyAward:2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal Winner - Literary Fiction Award|2013 IndieFab awards Silver Medal Winner - Literary AwardSize:7.90 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC9VMQ87X5
Parker, Kelcey: - Kelcey Parker's first book, For Sale By Owner (Kore Press, 2011), won the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Award in Short Fiction and was a Finalist for the 2012 Best Books of Indiana. She directs the creative writing program at Indiana University South Bend. During the summer of 2012, she worked as an Ask-Me Guide at Fallingwater where she asked as many questions as she answered, helped visitors get the perfect photo of Fallingwater, and always kept an eye out for Liliane's ghost. Most recently, she is the author of LILIANE'S BALCONY (Rose Metal Press, 2013).Parker Ervick, Kelcey: - Kelcey Parker Ervick has traveled to Prague regularly since 2003 and currently directs an overseas study program to Prague and Berlin, where students create collage journals inspired by artists such as Hannah Höch, Toyen (Marie Čermínová), and Jiří Kolář. She is the author of the story collection FOR SALE BY OWNER (Kore Press) and of LILIANE'S BALCONY (Rose Metal Press), a novella-in-flash set at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater and winner of silver medal awards from the IPPY, Foreword, and Eric Hoffer Book Awards. A recipient of grants from the Indiana Arts Commission and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, she teaches creative writing and literary collage at Indiana University South Bend. Her blog features interviews with contemporary writers and the series, Letters to Dead Authors.
Publisher: Rose Metal Press

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🏆 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal Winner - Literary Fiction Award|2013 IndieFab awards Silver Medal Winner - Literary Award

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Kelcey Parker

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