The whole world at once : stories / Erin Pringle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pringle-Toungate, Erin, author.

Contributor:

James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.

Loss (Psychology).

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

243 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Morgantown : Vandalia Press, 2017.

Summary:

Set against a backdrop of small towns and hardworking communities in middle America, The Whole World at Once is a collection of intense stories about the experience of loss. Pringle weaves together spellbinding tales amid shadowed and foreboding physical and emotional landscapes where each of the characters is in motion against her surroundings, and each is as likely as the next to be traveling with a ghost. A soldier returns home from multiple tours only to begin planting landmines in the field behind his house; kids chase a ghost story up country roads only to become one themselves; one girl copes with the anniversary of her sister's disappearance during the agricultural fair, while another girl searches for understanding after seeing the picture of a small bay washed onto a beach. In language that is at once both stark and rich, we enter the lives of the characters deliberately, in slow scenes-time enough for a bird to sing as a man and a girl, strangers, fall to their knees-that are inevitable yet laced with the unpredictable. Dark, strange beauties, all of the stories in The Whole World at Once follow the lives of people grappling with what it means to live in a world with death. Book jacket.

Contents:

How the Sun Burns among Hills of Rock and Pebble 1

The Boy Who Walks 30

The Boy in the Red Shirt 48

When the Frost Comes 54

This Bomb My Heart 80

The Fish 116

The Lightning Tree 145

The Missing Time 163

The Wandering House 204.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1943665575

9781943665570

OCLC:

958780898