The expense of a view / by Polly Buckingham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buckingham, Polly, author.

Series:

Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction series ; no. 15.

Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

ix, 171 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2016]

Summary:

The stories in The Expense of a View explore the psyches of characters under duress. In the title story, a woman who has moved across the country in an attempt to leave her past behind dumps an empty suitcase into the Columbia River again and again. In another story, a woman who discovers each morning that she's been shooting heroin in a night trance, meets her doppelganger on a rainy Oregon beach. Most of the characters are displaced and disturbed; they suffer from dissociative disorders, denial, and delusions. The settings-Florida, eastern Washington, Seattle, and the Oregon coast-mirror their lunacies. While refusing to look at what's right in front of themselves might destroy them, it's equally likely to be just what they need. Book jacket.

Contents:

Honey 1

Night train

Void of course

Expense of a view

Of swords

Thinking about Carson

Compliance

My old man

My doppelganger's arms

Festival

How to make an island

Blue plastic shades

The grandmother's vision

The island of cats.

Notes:

2016 Winner, Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction.

ISBN:

9781574416473

1574416472

OCLC:

951227244