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Ways to Disappear: Stories

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Availability:In StockContributor:Victoria Lancelotta, Cristina Rivera Garza (Foreword by)Publish date:2023-08-01Pages:262
Language:EnglishPublisher:F2cISBN-13:9781573662017ISBN-10:1573662011UPC:9781573662017Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:8.59 x 5.60 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SC0B390NJZ

The stories in Victoria Lancelotta's Ways to Disappear excavate the unexamined places between dread and desire, promise and threat, where the body is both prison and salvation. Populated by the grieving and the exultant and those who see no difference between the two, by men and women who are only a little bit broken and boys and girls who can't wait to be, by souls untethered, rootless, yet bound by blood and flesh, Lancelotta's characters are driven by the irresistible need to be a bigger part of the worlds they each inhabit, by turns strange and commonplace. In language lush and jagged, never sentimental, these stories scrutinize the exhaustion and enchantment of the everyday: houses seething with resentment and devotion, cars dream-full and hurtling the children in them into a world they think they know but can't imagine; front porches, back yards, luxury hotels, and truck stops. Lancelotta understands that sometimes people check their wounds not to see if they've healed, but to be sure they're still there.

Language:EnglishPublisher:F2cISBN-13:9781573662017ISBN-10:1573662011UPC:9781573662017Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:8.59 x 5.60 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SC0B390NJZ
Victoria Lancelotta is author of Here in the World: 13 Stories, and the novels Far and Coeurs Blesses. Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. She is the recipient of a Tennessee Individual Artist Fellowship, multiple Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grants, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She lives in Frederick MD.


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