The House on Figueroa - Gossy, Dorian
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The five-story Victorian house on Figueroa in this book of short stories is both a real place and a mythical way station where people must face changing fortunes that complicate even the most ordinary lives. Immigrants struggle to adapt, failure looms at the edges of happy marriages, even the most benign circumstances threaten sanity itself. The defining conflicts in The House on Figueroa are sharply delineated in crisp prose fresh imagery: wind that smells like a chainsaw, a Mexican sweetcake in a jewelry box, a painting with crushed roses broken glass. A dying woman banishes her husband from…mehr

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The five-story Victorian house on Figueroa in this book of short stories is both a real place and a mythical way station where people must face changing fortunes that complicate even the most ordinary lives. Immigrants struggle to adapt, failure looms at the edges of happy marriages, even the most benign circumstances threaten sanity itself. The defining conflicts in The House on Figueroa are sharply delineated in crisp prose fresh imagery: wind that smells like a chainsaw, a Mexican sweetcake in a jewelry box, a painting with crushed roses broken glass. A dying woman banishes her husband from her sick-bed, a scientist fudges an important experiment. What happens next? How do people survive irrevocable changes? Delve into this collection to find out.
Autorenporträt
Dorian Gossy, author of Household Lies (2005) was the recipient of the 2004 First Book Award in Fiction from Winnow Press. Her fiction has appeared in over a dozen literary magazines & journals, including Daedalus, North American Review, Other Voices, Denver Quarterly, & The Sun. She has received fellowships from The Ragdale Foundation, the Indiana Arts Commission, & The Mary Anderson Center for the Arts. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction & a Master of Social Work degree from Indiana University. She lives & works in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State.