Tim Coursey

Driving Lessons

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"In this brilliant fiction debut from a legendary visual artist, thirteen interconnected stories explore friendship and intimacy, loneliness and dislocation, and the physical contours of a dilapidated American landscape. The stories, which first appeared as part of Coursey's solo exhibition at SMU's Pollock Gallery, demonstrate the artist's fascination with the broken-down and discarded relics of industry and labor. Coursey's stories are laced with humor, conspiracy, paranoia, and compassion, exploring the ripple effects of violence, the mystery of a car found in a well, houseboat culture, Texas landscapes of machinery and dust. These ornate vignettes present a colorful cast of characters and vivid scenery, demonstrating the author's eye for detail both inanimate and human"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 126mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781646051748
• ISBN-10: 1646051742
• Artikelnr.: 62267171

Autorenporträt

Tim Coursey has lived in Dallas, Texas, since 1948. He studied art under Roger Winter at Dallas College and later at SMU Meadows School of the Arts, where his teachers included Otis Dozier, Jerry Bywaters, Mary Vernon, Larry Scholder and James Surls. Coursey’s practice is influenced by his connection with fellow writers, machinists, teachers and past day jobs. These have included janitor, bus driver, professional jeweler, foundry hand pourer of enormous one-piece bronzes, antique Japanese sword fitting replicator, and producer of tiny furniture. Driving Lessons is his first work of fiction.