Deborah Willis

The Dark and Other Love Stories (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The emotional range and depth of [Willis's stories], the clarity and deftness, are astonishing.Alice Munro

The characters in these thirteen masterful and engaging stories exist on the edge of danger, where landscapes melt into dreamscapes and every house is haunted. A drug dealer's girlfriend signs up for the first manned mission to Mars. A girl falls in love with a man who wants to turn her into a bird. A teenaged girl and her best friend test their relationship by breaking into suburban houses. A wife finds a gaping hole in the floor of the home she shares with her husband, a hole that only she can see. Full of longing and strange humor, these subtle, complex storiesabout the love between a man and his pet crow, an alcoholic and his AA sponsor, a mute migrant and a newspaper reportershow how love ties us to each other and to the world. The Dark and Other Love Stories announces the emergence of a wonderfully gifted storyteller whose stories enlarge our perceptions about the human capacity to love.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393285901
• Artikelnr.: 59591938

Autorenporträt

Deborah Willis is the author of Girlfriend on Mars and two acclaimed collections of short stories, including The Dark and Other Love Stories. Her work has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Walrus, and Zoetrope, among other publications. She lives in Calgary, Canada.