Title
Contents
Baby -- Remnants -- Rumpus -- Bankroll -- Last minutes -- White boy -- Fall semester -- Socialization -- Documentary -- Trade -- Revenge -- Heart failure -- Telephones -- Pinecone -- Resignation.
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1983
Series
Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction
Judge
Alice Adams
Award Date
1983
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Place
Iowa City
Total Pages
139
ISBN
9780877451198
Abstract
These 15 stories meet existence head on through detached narration that has the quality of a feverish dream. The chilling psyche tells a story where there seems to be no story. Even the victim remains dispassionate and lets the reader infer causes and measure threats. In unvarnished, linear prose stripped of sentimentality, Goodman casts the shape of inarticulate emotion. Yet at the heart of her stories about the foolish, the indifferent, and the vicious, between painful connections and violations, there is regenerating laughter or an inexpressible trace of something once whole and beautiful. Beneath Goodman's every absence, there is a compelling, disturbing presence.—Front flap.
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