Eightball (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781939650955)

Eightball strikes hard. Fueled by an abiding sense of loss, these eight stories take you on a journey over the exploded fault lines of intimacy, unfolding across cities and continents. Whether hitchhiking the Italian Veneto, trekking through a pitch-black Balinese rice field, or queuing for drinks in a crowded Seattle bar, Geoghegan sets her characters adrift in a world that stakes its claim to the enigmatic terrain of desire.

This collection of darkly comic, occasionally violent, tales is anchored by the eponymous "eightball," a coming of age novella about a sister and brother guided by the inertia of recklessness and self-destruction. A protégé of the late Lucia Berlin, Elizabeth Geoghegan writes lyric, place-driven prose laced with edgy realism and wry wit.

Author: Elizabeth Geoghegan
ISBN-10: 193965095X
ISBN-13: 9781939650955
Publisher: Santa Fe Writer's Project
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2019
Pages: 235
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2019