Matthew Vollmer

Gateway to Paradise: Stories (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A bold, vibrant, and surprising collection. Men and women looking for escape from the excess and sham culture in which they livejunk food, souvenirs, and hype (whether for religion or sex)are led by the power of their own imaginations to places of danger and self-reckoning.

In these gritty, imaginative stories set in the mountains and small towns of the Southoften in motels, theme parks, or resortsmen and women find themselves at the mercy of an inspiration gone wrong: a man on a tryst is seduced by a ghost; a woman conducts a test to discover who is her true best friendher husband or her dog; a beleaguered young writing professor goes one step too far while chaperoning the famous writer he finds darkly alluring. In the title story, an ex-high-school basketball player living an uneventful life in her small hometown as a cashier helps her boyfriend rob a lottery winner, and finds herself on an epic journey of fear, deceit, and betrayal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Persea
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780892554676
• Artikelnr.: 59590868

Autorenporträt

Matthew Vollmer is the author of Future Missionaries of America, a collection of stories, as well as Inscriptions for Headstones, a collection of essays. He is the editor of A Book of Uncommon Prayer, which collects invocations from over sixty acclaimed and emerging authors, and with David Shields is co-editor of Fakes; An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, Found Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts. His work has appeared in a range of anthologies and magazines, including The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, Epoch, Best American Essays and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. He directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Virginia Tech.