My escapee [electronic resource] : stories / by Corinna Vallianatos.

By:

Vallianatos, Corinna

Contributor(s):

Project Muse

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Winner of the 2011 Grace Paley Prize in short fictionPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (165 p. )ISBN:

9781613762752
1613762755

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

DDC classification:

813/.6 22

LOC classification:

PS3622.A48 M9 2012

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Contents:

My Escapee -- Posthumous fragments of Veronica Penn -- Examination -- Sink home -- Salvo -- Celebrants -- The Help -- Privations -- Shelter -- A civilizing effect.

Summary: Delicate and assured, the stories in My escapee illuminate unseen forces in women's lives: the shameful thought, the stifled hope, the subterranean stresses of marriage, friendship, and family. Grappling with lost memories, escaped time, the longing to be loved, and the instinct for autonomy, the stories peer inside their characters' minds to their benign delusions, their triumphs and defeats -- Provided by the publisher.

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My Escapee -- Posthumous fragments of Veronica Penn -- Examination -- Sink home -- Salvo -- Celebrants -- The Help -- Privations -- Shelter -- A civilizing effect.

Delicate and assured, the stories in My escapee illuminate unseen forces in women's lives: the shameful thought, the stifled hope, the subterranean stresses of marriage, friendship, and family. Grappling with lost memories, escaped time, the longing to be loved, and the instinct for autonomy, the stories peer inside their characters' minds to their benign delusions, their triumphs and defeats -- Provided by the publisher.

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