Sleeping in Velvet - Hardcover

Frank, Thaisa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 157423045X ISBN 13: 9781574230451

Publisher: Black Sparrow Pr, 1997

Synopsis

A Brief History of Camouflage, Thaisa Frank's critically acclaimed first fullscale collection of stories, established her reputation as one of those writers with a special gift for exploring the dreamlike abyss of distances, discontinuities and attractions across which contemporary relationships are negotiated. "This collection of stories", suggested Small Press Magazine, "brilliantly examines the detachment within intimacy which seems to plague men and women today".Frank's examination of the blurred lines between enchantment and illusion develops new magic-realist resonances in this second collection, which contains twenty-three stories as well as a novella -- all new writing, and all once again "oddly beautiful, hallucinatory, mysterious" (The Review of Contemporary Fiction) in its subtle calibration of the inner spaces and silences separating people, and the haunting undercurrents of feeling that hold them together.In the concluding novella, The Map Maker, those undercurrents exert an especially powerful tow, washing up a lost cargo of familial misunderstandings. Frank turns over objects left behind by the dead, bequeathed to the living to be stored in memory's "ambivalent archives".

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Review

At their best, the stories have the evocative, layered ambiguity of good poetry. -- The San Francisco Chronicle, Don Skiles

Frank's own voice cold be said to occupy the shadowy land between poetry and prose--at times strong in narrative, more often fantastic, transfixed by the possibilities of metaphor. -- The New York Times Book Review, William Ferguson

Edition details

• Publisher: Black Sparrow Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 157423045X
• ISBN 13: 9781574230451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250