Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman: Stories - Softcover

Parkison, Aimee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573660604 ISBN 13: 9781573660600

Verlag: Fiction Collective Two, 2017

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Aimee Parkison is a shrewd, fiery, wildly poetic, politically astute writer of fiction. With Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, Parkison gifts us with deeply imagined, and often fantastic landscapes, straight from the heart of her unique imagination, but these are always, in part, sharp commentaries on the world we have to inhabit in our daily lives. Parkison's satirical embrace, and always beautiful language, leaves you more awake to the world and unsettled in all the right ways." - Jane McCafferty, author of One Heart and First You Try Everything

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Winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction PrizeA darkly comical horror lurks beneath the surface of everyday events in Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, a seductively poetic story collection of unusual brilliance and rare humor. In Aimee Parkison's Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, lovers find unexpected romance in cramped spaces, fast food addicts struggle through cheeseburger addiction, and the splendor of nature competes with the violence of television. All the while, a complicated and precarious present dawns onto a new world where wealthy women wear children's eyes as jewelry and those in need of money hawk their faces only to forever mourn what parts of themselves they have sold to survive.Open the refrigerator door. Inside are antique jars. Open them to hear the music: Beethoven playing piano; slaves singing for freedom in plantation fields; mothers humming lullabies through the night to smallpox babies, knowing this song is the last sound their children will ever hear.As Stephen Graham Jones notes in his foreword to this prize-winning collection, "The best books . . . fold you into a darkness sparkling with life. They lock you in the refrigerator but they also pipe in some music that never repeats, and when the door starts to open, you cling tight to it, so you can have just a few minutes more. This book, it'll be over far too fast for you, yes. But even were it five times as thick as it is now, it would still be too short. Remember, though, the best books, they're loops. They never stop. This one still hasn't, for me."

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• Verlag: Fiction Collective Two
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1573660604
• ISBN 13: 9781573660600
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96