Father Guards the Sheep (Iowa Short Fiction Award) - Softcover

Rosenblatt, Sari

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1609387449 ISBN 13: 9781609387440

Verlag: University of Iowa Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

In Sari Rosenblatt&;s collection, by turns tender and hilarious, we see fathers who are bullies and nervous watchdogs, haunted by their own pasts and fear of the future they may never see. And who do their daughters become? A substitute teacher who encounters mouthy students who believe she&;s not real. Another lands a job on her city&;s arson squad, researching derelict properties their owners might want to burn. A beleaguered mother, humiliated by the PTA&;s queen bee, finds solace in an ancient piece of caramel candy. &;I keep sucking,&; she says, &;until some flavor, no longer caramel, comes out.&; In the end, this is what all these finely wrought characters want: to wring sweetness from what&;s been passed down to them.

Rosenblatt&;s comic sensibility, so present in these stories, entertains and consoles, while seeming to say to her readers: you might as well laugh.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sari Rosenblatt has published stories in the Iowa Review and is winner of the short-story awards from Glimmer Train, New Millennium Writings, Ms Magazine, and Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry. She holds and MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She teaches fiction writing at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, Connecticut. She lives in Middletown, Connecticut.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Iowa Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1609387449
• ISBN 13: 9781609387440
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 163
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar