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White Tattoo: A Collection of Short Stories
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Artikel-Nr:
9780814250969
Veröffentl:
2002
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.04.2002
Seiten:
228
Autor:
William J. Cobb
Gewicht:
336 g
Format:
228x155x16 mm
Serie:
Sandstone Price Short Fiction
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Published in The New Yorker, The Mississippi Review, and many other national journals, William J. Cobb teaches writing at Penn State University. His first novel, The Fire Eaters, won the Associated Writing Program's novel award.
The White Tattoo is a smart, always surprising collection of American stories. William J. Cobb knows and loves his character and places. His first collection of short stories, The White Tattoo, revels in the undeniable allure of the physical world even as it is juxtaposed with the twists and kinks of psychological and emotional pain. At one extreme is the tense, torturous psychology of "Motel Ice," whose narrative voice emerges from the mind of a mentally disturbed Jehovah's Witness gazing out on a world of temptation and redemption. Similarly hyperdramatic in its conclusion and its arc of betrayal and violent aftermath, "For All You Dorks, Blah Blah Blah" conjures up a sleepwalking, murderous father who is less culpable in the harm he causes but all the while most destructive.