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Visitations: Stories

Visitations: Stories

Upton, Lee

Hardcover

Series: Yellow Shoe Fiction

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0807168122
ISBN13: 9780807168127
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Aug 16 2017
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Poignant, exquisite, and endlessly witty -- Kirkus Review (Starred Review)

People--the species defies logic! reflects the protagonist of one of the dazzling, intricate stories in Visitations. In this latest collection from Lee Upton, characters navigate often bewildering situations, from the homeschooled girl trying to communicate telepathically with an injured man she finds on the beach to the experimental theater troupe (called the Community Playas) composed primarily of actors the story's narrator has wronged or been wronged by.

Upton's stories frequently draw inspiration from books--books as art objects or lost objects, as inspiration or points of contention. Night Walkers tells the story of the world's laziest book club, while A Story's End follows a woman's search for the last book read by her mother before her sudden death. Elsewhere, the ghosts of literature and writers past haunt the characters' present: The Tell-All Heart sees a woman falling in love with Edgar Allan Poe's discarded suit, and an unruly, unpredictable shadow creeps in a child's window to demand that he cut off the other hand of Captain Hook in A Shadow.

In the surreal yet playful tradition of Karen Russell and George Saunders, Visitations brings together seventeen incandescent short stories from a writer at the height of her powers.

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