
Correction of Drift
A Novel in Stories
Pamela Ryder(Author)
Fiction Collective Two (Publisher)
Published on 30. January 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-57366-142-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is a brooding fictional reimagining of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, from many viewpoints. It was called the crime of the century, and it was front-page news: the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. ""Correction of Drift: A Novel in Stories"" imagines the private lives behind the headlines of the case and examines the endurance - and demise - of those consumed by the tragedy.There is Anne Morrow Lindbergh - daughter of a millionaire, the shy poet who married a national hero; Charles Lindbergh - the rough-and-tumble Minnesota barnstormer, who at age twenty-five made the first solo transatlantic flight, bringing him worldwide prestige; Violet - the skittish family maid with a curious attachment to their body and a secret life that lapses into hysteria and self-destruction; and the kidnappers - an assembly of misfits with their own histories of misery.All are bound by the violence, turmoil, and mystery of the child's disappearance. And as the days, weeks, and years pass, it becomes evident that each life has been irrevocably changed. Patterns of bereavement and loss illuminate these stories: despair at the death of a child; the retreat into seclusion; and, the comfort - and the desolation - of marriage. But the heart of this novel is the far-reaching nature of tragedy and the ways the characters continue to live their lives.
Reviews / Votes
With gorgeously precise language, Ryder slips between the cracks in intractable surfaces, revealing the inexpressible word. - Dawn Raffel, author of Carrying the Body ""I first read Pam Ryder's eloquent stories over ten years ago, and thought she was one of the most powerful prose stylists I had ever encountered. Correction of Drift is dazzling, original, and brings something completely new to American letters."" - Pat Conroy ""Ryder, Ryder, you've done it, you have done it! - made that which no one else has made. Isn't firstness the consolation? Ask the ghost of Lucky Lindy. Oh, the occurrences, with what cruelty they will come to have their way with us. But to have been first at something, first at anything, as in having crossed an uncrossable distance - by air, let us say, or by word - is this not the deed? And thus, in proof of this, the luck of those who hold this ghostly book, this inconsolable haunting, in hand."" - Gordon LishMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal
United States
Publishing group
The University of Alabama Press
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
277 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57366-142-3 (9781573661423)
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05/2012
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Pamela Ryder's stories have been widely published in literary journals, including The Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Conjunctions, The Texas Review, and Quarterly West.