Sleight
A Novel
Published on 7. September 2011
330 pages
978-1-56689-293-3 (ISBN)
Description
A "powerfully original" novel that explores ideas of artistic performance, gender, and family in the shadow of an unthinkable tragedy (Kirkus Reviews). Sisters Lark and Clef have spent their lives honing their bodies for "sleight"-an interdisciplinary art form that combines elements of dance, architecture, acrobatics, and spoken word. Estranged for several years, the sisters are reunited by West, an ambitious sleight troupe director who needs the sisters' opposing approaches to the form-Lark is tormented and fragile, but a prodigy; Clef is driven to excel, but lacks the spark of artistic genius. But when a disturbing mass murder makes national headlines, West seizes on the event as inspiration for his new performance, one that threatens to destroy the very artists performing it-or drive them to the very edge of sanity in this unique novel from "a wildly talented writer" (Adam Levin, author of The Instructions).
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Kirsten Kaschock has earned degrees from Yale University, the University of Iowa, Syracuse University, and the University of Georgia. The author of two collections of poetry, Unfathoms and A Beautiful Name for a Girl, she resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she is currently a doctoral fellow in dance at Temple University.
Content
- Intro
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Book 1
- Pain.
- Naming.
- Calling.
- Recovery.
- Pilgrimage.
- Soul.
- Lark's Book.
- Cell.
- Share.
- Notes from a Lapsed Hand.17
- Lark's Book.
- Compound.
- Lark's Book.
- Mission.
- Book 2
- November.
- November.
- Lark's Book.
- November.
- Schooled.
- Churched.
- Wedded.
- Familiar.
- The Other Quartet.
- A Pair of Solos.
- First Duet.
- Second Duet.
- Third Duet.
- Opening.
- Closing.
- Fishing.
