The Lovers Set down Their Spoons |
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| Author:
| Slomski, Heather A. |
| Series title: | Iowa Short Fiction Award Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60938-282-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2014 |
| Publisher: | University of Iowa Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.00 |
Book Description:
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Winner of the 2014 Iowa Short Fiction Award, Heather A. Slomski's debut story collection takes loss as its primary subject and holds it up to the light. In prose spare and daring, poised yet startling, these stories take shape in reality, but reality, they sometimes show us, is not a separate realm from the fantastic or the surreal. Two couples meet for dinner to acknowledge an affair. A mannequin recalls a lover and the life she mysteriously lost. Two girls observe a young...
More DescriptionWinner of the 2014 Iowa Short Fiction Award, Heather A. Slomski's debut story collection takes loss as its primary subject and holds it up to the light. In prose spare and daring, poised yet startling, these stories take shape in reality, but reality, they sometimes show us, is not a separate realm from the fantastic or the surreal. Two couples meet for dinner to acknowledge an affair. A mannequin recalls a lover and the life she mysteriously lost. Two girls observe a young widow's grief through a café window. A man's hat is as discerning as Cinderella's shoe.