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Attempts at a Life - Softcover

Dutton, Danielle

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Synopsis

Fiction. Operating somewhere between fiction and poetry, biography and theory, the stories in ATTEMPTS AT A LIFE do what lively stories do best, creating worlds of possibility, worlds filled with surprises. Like the "experiments in found movement" one character conducts (in "Everybody's Autobiography"), Dutton's stories find movement wherever they turn, each sentence a small explosion of images and anthems and odd juxtapositions. This is writing in which the imagination (both writer's and reader's) is capable of producing almost anything at any moment, from a shiny penny to an alien metropolis, a burning village to a bright green bird. "Danielle Dutton's stories remind me of those alluring puzzles where the pool is overflowing and emptying at the same time. Dutton's answer? That the self is a rush of the languages of storytelling and moments of helpless intimacy"--Robert Gluck.

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About the Author

Danielle Dutton is the author of Attempts at a Life and S P R A W L (forthcoming from Siglio Press in 2010). Her work has also appeared in magazines such as Harper's, NOON, and 3rd bed, and anthologies including Where We Live Now: An Annotated Reader and A Best of Fence.

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