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The ruin of everything / Lara Stapleton.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.T3349 R85 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stapleton, Lara, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women.
- United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Philippines.
- Philippines--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Women--United States--Fiction.
- Women--Philippines--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 123 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Mateo, California : Paloma Press 2021.
- Summary:
- The Ruin of Everything tells tales of abandoned children living in adult bodies. Bastards, bi-racial half-siblings, and orphans raised by aunts, they lose their last best love through brokenness like "the impossible loop in a stress dream." Racial ambiguity abounds and confounds US color lines. Tones stretch from lugubrious sorrow to wicked dramedy. Obstinately fluid in architecture and identity, stories range from slick Hollywood glam to essayistic musings, from traditional immigrant realism, to rehearsals of autofiction that grow more metatextual as the book goes along. Just as we think we've learned how to read Stapleton's stories, they shapeshift. And yet, the pieces reflect each other, a sad-clown funhouse hall of mirrors. Through wanton experiments with character, The Ruin of Everything asks us what is important to a tale and what it means to be American in country and continents. Lovers of Clarice Lispector and Luisa Valenzuela will find much to admire here.
- Contents:
- Alpha Male
- Intention Neglect
- New
- The Glory of
- The Other Realm
- Godspeed
- Arrhythmia
- Until it Comes to You
- Flesh and Blood
- ISBN:
- 9781734496550
- 173449655X
- OCLC:
- 1265301816
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