Schmeidler Lynn Schmeidler

Half-Lives (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Autumn House Press
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781637680926
• Artikelnr.: 70879719

Autorenporträt

Lynn Schmeidler's fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Georgia Review, KR Online, The Southern Review, and other literary magazines. Her stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and received a notable citation in Best American Short Stories. She is the recipient of a Sewanee Writers' Conference Tennessee Williams scholarship in fiction and has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. In addition to fiction, she has published one poetry book, History of Gone (Veliz Books, shortlisted for the Sexton Prize and finalist for the Anhinga-Robert Dana Prize) and two poetry chapbooks, Wrack Lines (Grayson Books, Finalist for the Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize and the Comstock Review Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Prize) and Curiouser & Curiouser (Winner of the Grayson Books Chapbook Prize). She earned a BA from Yale University and an MEd from Lesley College. She and her husband live in the Hudson Valley.