The palace of illusions stories
"In "Beautiful Lady of the Snow, " young Annabelle turns to a host of family pets to combat the alienation she feels caught between her distracted mother and ailing grandfather; in "Night Owls, " a young college student's crush on her acting partner is complicated by the bloodlust of being half-vamp...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
Soft Skull Press,
[2014]
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| Summary: | "In "Beautiful Lady of the Snow, " young Annabelle turns to a host of family pets to combat the alienation she feels caught between her distracted mother and ailing grandfather; in "Night Owls, " a young college student's crush on her acting partner is complicated by the bloodlust of being half-vampire; in "Cancer Poems, " a dying woman turns to a poetry workshop to make sense of her terminal diagnosis and final days; in "Intuition, " a young girl's sexual forays bring her closer to her best friend's father; and in the collection's title story, a photographer looks back to his youth spent as a young illusionist under the big tent and his obsessive affair with the carnival owner's wife. Distracted parents, first love, the twin forces of alienation and isolation: the characters in The Palace of Illusions all must contend with these challenges, trafficking in the fault lines between the real and the imaginary, often in a world not of their making."--From publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | 243 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781593765422 (hbk.) 1593765428 (hbk.) |
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