Isbn: 9781681146010 - flash gardens, and other short fiction: volume two (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English. Faktorovich, Anna (illustrator).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Volume Two of Flash Gardens and Short Fiction resumes the compilation of fiction begun in Volume One, with more independently published, self-contained excerpts from longer works. If the focus of Volume One was, overall, melancholic remembrance of things past and forays into nostalgia, Volume Two, while echoing that focus, contains more comic material, ranging from dark humor to outright slapstick. The author maintains that fiction and poetry are endemically autobiographical in that every thought process abetting their creation filters through an individual mind with its singular, subjective peccadillos, biases, nuances and impressions. This applies to work that seems 'objective', as is the case with some of the historically based work in this volume. Again, New Orleans and southwest Virginia remain the settings or locales for the stories; and the dramatis personae resemble real people the author knows or has known. Some of the New Orleans excerpts will challenge readers unfamiliar with the local patois and dialect of that mythic city, but the author has attempted to render them faithfully, as he recollects them. Faktorovich, Anna (illustrator).…