
There Is Only One Ghost in the World
Fiction Collective Two (Publisher)
Published on 17. October 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
124 pages
978-1-57366-203-1 (ISBN)
Description
There is a sense that, if only the pieces could be put together in the right way, some answer to a spill of unasked questions would become clear. There is Only One Ghost in the World follows the stories of a multilayered voice broken into fragments, an intimate witness that both delicately and bluntly reveals the best and the worst in all of us. The intricately woven voice(s) embark on a kaleidoscopic investigation into the loneliness of modern American life and family relationships, exploring the truths and lies we tell one another, and why, with empathy, grief, and humility. There is spiritual significance and consequence to these investigations, knit with the opaque vein of exploring language itself, the practice of etymological study wielded as one tool of unearthing. Inherently political, there is an unavoidable violence in this work, as stories travel from the oil-slicked beaches of California and the alleys of New Orleans to the steps of the Capitol. Here: the raw nerves of gender and identity; here: the lessons of heartbreak; here: true myths and old rumors; here: legacies of art and incisors of seasons. Incompletable Venn diagrams, sibling porn stars; addiction and climate change, the lyrics of disco and taxonomy of slot machines; last meals and unearthed mummies. There is Only One Ghost in the World is a book about what happened just before you woke up, and what happened just after. And what happened next.
Reviews / Votes
"Edgy and gripping, the slides in this carousel are not from last summer's vacation. They are nerve patterns projected on the screen. Click after click, they give us episodic miniatures of loss and absence, first and last things, the guises of love... Sequencing is essential in a work like this-Sophie Klahr and Corey Zeller have the prose equivalent of perfect pitch."-Sven Birkerts, author of The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again"A deeply poignant work of both generosity and vision creating an indelible shape and told in lucid, luminous prose. Beautifully done."-Carole Maso, author of Mother Child
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal
United States
Publishing group
The University of Alabama Press
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57366-203-1 (9781573662031)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Klahr Sophie Klahr | Zeller Corey Zeller
There Is Only One Ghost in the World
E-Book
10/2023
1st Edition
University of Alabama Press
€11.99
Available for download
Persons
Sophie Klahr is author of Meet Me Here at Dawn and Two Open Doors in a Field.
Corey Zeller is author of Man vs. Sky and You and Other Pieces.
Corey Zeller is author of Man vs. Sky and You and Other Pieces.