Leslie Kirk Campbell

The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In these brilliant, thematically linked stories, men and women from the Midwest to the West Coast, from Germany to Japan-engineers, opera singers, waitresses, teenagers, and monks-reckon with their body's relationship to grief, illness, violation, technology, and genocide. They escape their fate in unusual ways-by befriending the squatting heroin addict next door, using a child's flute as a gun in the dark, or ordering a new pair of legs, all in a variety of rich settings. The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs is about the ways our bodies are marked by memory, often literally (burns, bruises, tracks, tattoos), and the risky decisions we make when pushed to the extreme. There's a little O'Connor, a dash of DeLillo, and a cup of Alice Munro mixed together with a great deal of compassion. Leslie Campbell's fiction debut is a must-read and sure winner.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sarabande Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781946448897
• Artikelnr.: 61090416

Autorenporträt

Leslie Kirk Campbell's short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares Solos and won awards at Arts & Letters, Southern Indiana Review, Briar Cliff Review and The Thomas Wolfe Review. The author of Journey into Motherhood (Riverhead), Leslie is the mother of two grown sons and teaches at Ripe Fruit Writing, a creative writing program she founded in San Francisco.