Circling the Drain
Stories
1st Edition
Published on 17. February 2009
208 pages
978-0-06-185346-3 (ISBN)
Description
Enter into the worlds of fifteen young women who, despite their vastly different circumstances, seem to negotiate an eerily similar and unavoidably dangerous emotional terrain. With a visceral bite or a surreal edge, each electrically charged story in Circling the Drain presents women trying to understand the nature of loss--of leaving or being left--and discovering that in the throes of feverish conflict, things are rarely what they seem. By turns dark and lyrical, ferocious and playful, these stories are precise, startling, and undeniably original. Reading them is a cathartic, mesmerizing literary experience.
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Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Prints
- Red Lights Like Laughter
- Fat Ladies Floated in the Sky Like Balloons
- Testimony
- Chase
- Circling the Drain
- True Story
- Fairy Tale
- Sticks and Stones
- Ending Things
- Spice
- The Visit
- Crash
- The Very Moment They're About
- Faith or Tips for the Successful Young Lady
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Praise
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
