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    612-822-4611

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See Through: Stories

See Through: Stories

Reifler, Nelly

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 074326150X
ISBN13: 9780743261500
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Jan 19 2006
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
By turns electrifying and haunting, the stories in Nelly Reifler's debut collection, now available in paperback, imagine a world where the emotional logic of dreams and childhood fantasies rules our actions. In the title story, an educated young woman sits behind the glass of a talk booth in a peep show and becomes a different girl for each man who visits. The Splinter posits a thorn in a little girl's scalp as the physical locus for a father's wrenching grief and helplessness following his wife's desertion. In Teeny, an awkward, pubescent girl can't bring herself to perform the simple task of feeding the vacationing neighbors' cats. In Baby, an infant asks his mother existential questions that are impossible to answer. Exploring her characters' psyches with the precision of an anthropologist, Reifler illuminates physical urges, crippling fears, stark isolation, and overwhelming, often transgressive desires. Through it all, the author plumbs the deep chasm between expectation and reality with boundless hope, warmth, and wisdom.

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