Three Versions of the Truth - Softcover

Amy Knox Brown

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979304938 ISBN 13: 9780979304934

Publisher: Press 53, 2007

Synopsis

If history is the version of events that people have decided to agree upon, what happens to the alternative versions, the lost facts, the unacknowledged motives? In her compelling collection, Three Versions of the Truth, award-winning author Amy Knox Brown explores history¿s impact on the lives of modern-day Midwesterners. These stories zero in on the place where truth and desire collide and examine characters who are forced to make hard choices about the stories they tell themselves.

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As its title suggests, the duplicitous nature of relationships—with lovers, family, friends, but most importantly, with one's own inner demons—is explored in all its tangled perplexity in Brown's vibrant debut collection of short stories set in her native Nebraska. As level on the page as the quintessential Great Plains landscape, Brown nonetheless reveals the dramatic peaks and valleys hidden within the interior terrain of her striking cast of everyday characters. From the college professor whose career takes a nosedive only to be saved by the publication of an ersatz self-help book in "Dr. Faustus in Lincoln" to the young woman contemplating the loss of a girlhood friendship in "Why We Are the Way We Are," Brown's protagonists are a preternaturally introspective lot, but their philosophical meditations make for revelatory reading. With fictional interludes of historical significance sprinkled throughout the collection like palate-cleansing dollops of sorbet, Brown serves up a savory homage to the place she calls home and to its myriad inhabitants. Haggas, Carol

Edition details

• Publisher: Press 53
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979304938
• ISBN 13: 9780979304934
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228