Half-Lives (Autumn House Press Rising Writer Prize)

Schmeidler, Lynn

ISBN 10: 1637680910 / ISBN 13: 9781637680919

Editore: Autumn House Press, 2024

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Riassunto:

A playful debut short story collection imagining women’s lives in a world free of social limitations.
 
Amid heightened restrictions about what women can and cannot do with their bodies, Lynn Schmeidler’s debut short story collection, Half-Lives, is a humane, absurd, and timely collection of narratives centering on women’s bodies and psyches. Playful and experimental, these sixteen stories explore girlhood, sexuality, motherhood, identity, and aging in a world where structures of societal norms, narrative, gender, and sometimes even physics do not apply. The protagonists grapple with the roles they choose and with those that are thrust upon them as they navigate their ever-evolving emotional lives. A woman lists her vagina on Airbnb, Sleeping Beauty is a yoga teacher who lies in state on the dais of her mother’s studio, and a museum intern writes a confession of her affair in the form of a hijacked museum audio guide.
 
Half-Lives is the 2023 Rising Writer Prize winner, selected by Matt Bell.
 

Informazioni sull?autore: Lynn Schmeidler’s fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Georgia Review, KR Online, the Southern Review, and other publications, and she won the 2023 BOMB Fiction Contest for her short story “InventEd.” She has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She is the author of the poetry book History of Gone and two poetry chapbooks, Wrack Lines and Curiouser & Curiouser. She lives in the Hudson Valley.
 

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Titolo: Half-Lives (Autumn House Press Rising Writer...
Casa editrice: Autumn House Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2024
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good