If a Stranger Approaches You by Kasischke, Laura

If a Stranger Approaches You (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781936747498)

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If a Stranger Approaches You by Kasischke, Laura

If a Stranger Approaches You

$15.95
If a Stranger Approaches You by Kasischke, Laura

If a Stranger Approaches You

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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In her first collection of short stories, Laura Kasischke exposes the dark heart of the domestic--it's wrapped in shabby silk, tucked away in a dresser drawer. If A Stranger Approaches You reminds us that intersection of the bizarre and the quotidian is always at play. Memorial statues and raggedy dolls seem to come to life, a man listens to the electric menace of suburban power lines while he struggles with his failed marriage, and the little boy and his dog knocking on the door might be Death in disguise. Surreal and darkly comic, these are stories that know the unexpected graces and random collisions that drive and haunt us. As one of her narrators remarks, "What a thing, this life."


Author: Laura Kasischke
ISBN-10: 1936747499
ISBN-13: 9781936747498
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2013
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Silver Medal Winner

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/24/2012
Booklist 01/01/2013 pg. 34
Library Journal 03/01/2013 pg. 73
Shelf Awareness 02/26/2013
Foreword 02/26/2013
By Laura Kasischke
By Laura Kasischke
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Laura Kasischke is the author of seven collections of poetry and seven novels. Her work has received many honors, including the Pushcart Prize and the Juniper Poetry Prize. Her latest, Space in Chains, received the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. She lives in Chelsea, Michigan and teaches at the University of Michigan MFA program in Ann Arbor.

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