Between Camelots
Published on 30. October 2005
168 pages
978-0-8229-7760-5 (ISBN)
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Between Camelots is about the struggle to forge relationships and the spaces that are left when that effort falls short. In the title story, a man at a backyard barbecue waits for a blind date who never shows up. He meets a stranger who advises him to give up the fight; to walk away from intimacy altogether and stop getting hurt. The wisdom-or foolhardiness-of that approach is at the heart of each of these stories. In "I'll Be Home," a young man who has converted to Judaism goes home for Christmas in Miami, and finds that his desire to connect to his parents conflicts with his need to move on. "The Movements of the Body" introduces us to a woman who believes that she can control the disintegration of her life through a carefully measured balance of whiskey and mouthwash. These are stories about loss and fear, but also about the courage that drives us all to continue to reach out to the people around us.
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David Harris Ebenbach
Between Camelots
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10/2005
University of Pittsburgh Press
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David Harris Ebenbach's short fiction has been published in numerous literary magazines including Denver Quarterly, Beloit Fiction Journal, and Crazyhorse. His poetry has appeared in Phoebe, Stickman Review, and Arbutus, among other publications.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Misdirections
- Rue Rachel
- Between Camelots
- The Movements of the Body
- Bridesmaid
- Nothing Ever Happens in White America
- Fighting
- Social Games
- Pointing Up
- Getting Back onto Solid Foods
- Rebbetzin
- Searching the Reef in the Off-Season
- Orange
- Out in the Open
- I'll Be Home
- Acknowledgments
