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The characters in Speed-Walk and Other Stories often find themselves dislocated, living in places that do not resemble or feel like home. Their lives have somehow been turned on their axes, and often they cannot comprehend why. The stories in this stunning debut collection are united by their protagonists' common quest to make sense of the world, to bring it into focus, to set it right, to adapt.In selecting Suzanne Greenberg's fiction for the 2003 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, Rick Moody wrote, "A charge sometimes leveled against contemporary fiction these days is that it has abrogated its responsibility to depict civilization as it actually exists. . . . Speed-Walk replies forcefully to this aesthetic error by locating its protagonists in completely recognizable environments. . . . They] are ever engaged by the routines of American life: walking the dog, eating at the sushi bar, doing the laundry." Tightly written yet realistically spare, these stories provide a blueprint for survival when the unexpected is thrust into an ordinary life.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822962470
ISBN13:9780822962472
Release Date:October 2003
Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
Length:184 Pages
Weight:0.56 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
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A writer to watch
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Ms. Greenberg's characters are wonderfully complex and realistic and their situations simultaneously sad and funny. The sense of humor through which she views her characters softens the often gut-wrenching details in these stories. I would like to see a novel from Ms. Greenberg next!
You need this book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
You need this book to get a giggle out of the society that we live in. Read it while you are waiting for your flight to board or even in your shrink's waiting room. The people in the stories are all people you know or have met and the cover looks good with whatever you are wearing.- Cosmic Larry
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