The Innocent Party (American Readers Series #17)

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Synopsis
"Aimee Parkison most often begins softly, slowly stripping away each layer of social interaction to get at what is numinous and frightening and necessary about living in the real world. These are stories both about the difficulty and the intense suddenness of human connection, about the profound link that exists between being in love and being alone."-Brian EvensonFrom "The Glass Girl":On certain evenings in dark motels, she could transform her lip into the edge of the bottle, imagining her face was made of amber glass and the men paused above her only to take a drink of breath. Over the years, men drank and drank until there were only two sips left inside. They began sucking the air out of the glass that grew warm in the wrong places because of heat radiating off their hands. The men's breath along with white feathers fell over autumn winds drifting through open windows.In this collection, Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize–winner Aimee Parkison's characters struggle to understand what happens when the innocent party becomes the guilty party. With magical realist flair, secrets are aired with dirty laundry, but the stains never come clean. Carol Anshaw writes, "Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography."Aimee Parkison has an MFA from Cornell University. She is associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she teaches creative writing.
Copyright:
2012

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
200 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781934414873
Related ISBNs:
9781934414866
Publisher:
BOA Editions Ltd.
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Copyrighted By:
Aimee Parkison
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Social Studies
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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