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Spectacle: Stories

Susan Steinberg

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Spectacle was named a Best Book of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle, Complex, Flavorwire, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and Largehearted Boy. In these innovative linked stories, women confront loss and grief as they sift through the wreckage of their lives. In the title story, a woman struggles with the death of her friend in a plane crash. A daughter decides whether to take her father off life support in the Pushcart Prize-winning "Cowboys." And in "Underthings," when a man hits his girlfriend, she calls it an accident. Spectacle bears witness to alarming and strange incidents: carnival rides and plane crashes, affairs spied through keyholes and amateur porn, vandalism and petty theft. These wounded women stand at the edge of disaster and risk it all to speak their sharpest secrets. In lean, acrobatic prose, Susan Steinberg subverts assumptions about narrative and challenges conventional gender roles. She delivers insight with a fierce lyric intensity in sentences shorn of excessive sentiment or unnecessary ornament. By fusing style and story, Steinberg amplifies the connections between themes and characters so that each devastating revelation echoes throughout the collection.

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Publisher
Graywolf Press
ISBN-13
9781555970642
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Grief and lossWomen's trauma and survivalDomestic violence and relationships

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