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Book

Ways to disappear : stories

Call Number

  • FICTION LANC (CEN)

Publication Information

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : FC2/The University of Alabama Press, [2023]

Physical Description

xii, 250 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"Victoria Lancelotta's Ways to Disappear is a collection of stories that excavates the unexamined places between dread and desire, promise and threat, where the body is both prison and salvation. Lancelotta's stories scrutinize the exhaustion and enchantment of the everyday: houses seething with resentment and devotion, cars dream-full and hurtling the girls and boys in them into a world they think they know but can't imagine: front porches, back yards, luxury hotels, and truck stops"--

Contents

  • You are here
  • So happy
  • Like we did
  • The Anniversary trip
  • As though I have the right to
  • Undertow
  • Better
  • A Little mercy
  • Other people's children
  • Dinosaurs
  • Crestview Way, October 1985
  • What surrounded
  • Accident, design
  • A Good woman
  • Ambivalence.

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