Prairie, dresses, art, other / Danielle Dutton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dutton, Danielle, 1975- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Genre:

short stories.

Literature

Essays.

Short stories.

Literature.

Physical Description:

169 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2024.

Summary:

"From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and SPRAWL comes a prose collection like no other, where different styles of writing and different spaces of experience create a collage of the depths and strangeness of contemporary life. "Luminous" (The Guardian) and "brilliantly odd" (The Irish Independent), Danielle Dutton's writing is as protean as it is beguiling. In the four eponymous sections of Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other, Dutton imagines new models for how literature might work in our fractured times. "Prairie" is a cycle of surreal stories set in the quickly disappearing prairieland of the American Midwest. "Dresses" offers a surprisingly moving portrait of literary fashions. "Art" turns to essay, examining how works of visual art and fiction might relate to one another, a question central to the book, while the final section, "Other," includes pieces of irregular ("other") forms, stories-as-essays or essays-as-stories that defy category and are hilarious or heartbreaking by turns. Out of these varied materials, Dutton builds a haunting landscape of wildflowers, megadams, black holes, violence, fear, virtual reality, abiding strangeness, and indefinable beauty"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prairie. Nocturne

These bad things

Installation

Lost lunar apogee

My wonderful description of flowers

Dresses. Sixty-six dresses I have read

Art. A picture held us captive

Other. One woman and two great men

Acorn

Not writing

Somehow

A double room

Writing advice

To want for nothing

Story with a hole

Pool of tears (a play in one act).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Dutton, Danielle, 1975- Prairie, dresses, art, other

ISBN:

9781566897037

1566897033

OCLC:

1407212172