The Expense of a View |
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| Author:
| Buckingham, Polly |
| Series title: | Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-57441-647-3 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2016 |
| Publisher: | University of North Texas Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2016. The stories in
The Expense of a View explore the psyches of characters under extreme 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 over and over again. In another story, a woman who wakes up mornings only to discover she's been shooting heroin in a night trance, meets...
More Description Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2016.
The stories in The Expense of a View explore the psyches of characters under extreme 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 over and over again. In another story, a woman who wakes up mornings only to discover 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.