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The Quick-Change Artist: Stories - Softcover

Holladay, Cary

 
9780804010931: The Quick-Change Artist: Stories
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0804010935 ISBN 13: 9780804010931
Verlag: Ohio University Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

In these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the community and its visitors. From the quiet of a rural forest to the rhythms of rock and roll, The Quick-Change Artist is at once whimsical and hard-edged, dizzying in its matter-of-fact delivery of the fantastic.
Romance, a sense of place and belonging, and the supernatural-especially in the lives of children coming of age-offer windows into worlds beyond the ordinary throughout The Quick-Change Artist. In the title story, a young chambermaid is in love with a foreign magician who performs at the hotel where she works. In "Heaven," set during the 1918 flu epidemic, a struggling mother and son rely on the support of their fortune-telling plow horse. The narrator of "Jane's Hat" recalls a childhood enlivened by an unusual school principal and a friend who starts finding beauty everywhere.
Horses and the people who love them, wanderers and those who feed them, creatures that disappear and those who search for them: these are stories with a constant heart.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Cary Holladay has published seven volumes of fiction, including The Quick-Change Artist,Horse People: Stories, and The Deer in the Mirror. Her stories and essays have appeared in Ecotone, Epoch, Georgia Review, Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, Oxford American, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Southern Review, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many other journals. Her story &;Merry-Go-Sorry&; was selected by Stephen King for an O. Henry award. She teaches at the University of Memphis.

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Verlag
Ohio University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0804010935
ISBN 13 
9780804010931
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
216
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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Breda
4831 GR
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