The Wave and Other Stories
"Gussoff has a good eye for detail...A tautly written, haunting tale of loneliness, alienation, and lost hopes and dreams."-- Kirkus Reviews "Deals insightfully and unsentimentally with the issues the Jerry Springer show frequently airs, showing how seemingly normal families nourish the impulse for self-destruction."-- Scotland on Sunday The stories in Sight Unseen map out the tangled webs of love, dependency and identity among a cast of fragile, bruised characters. A dying recluse is torn between her mother and the pursuit of pain and a younger sister unleashes a terrible revenge when her virginity is traded for drugs. The author of Homecoming , Caren Gussoff grew up in New York. She has an MFA in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She now organizes online support groups for the chronically ill and lives in Seattle.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1852424591
ISBN13:9781852424596
Release Date:January 2003
Publisher:Serpent's Tail
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.31 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"
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Documents Caren Gussof as a gifted writer
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
The Wave And Other Stories is an anthology of a novella (The Wave) and ten original short stories by Caren Gussof about characters marginalized, disempowered, and forced to fight back to understand, protect, or avenge themselves. Dark, streetwise, and haunting in its brief yet impressionable vignettes. The short stories include Stealing Purses; Surface Reading; Spark; Astronaut; Unpretty; Bruce Lee; The Deepest Dive; Djinni; Love Story; and Sight Unseen. The Wave And Other Stories clearly documents Caren Gussof as a gifted writer who combines imagination and originality with insight and empathy.
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