Crazy Water : : Six Fictions / / Lori Baker.
In Crazy Water: Six Fictions, Lori Baker pushes the boundaries between truth and reality with curious, tragi-comic results. The imagination is Baker's terrain, and in these stories, pleasant suburban childhoods, family drives, seaside vacations, and an academic's quest for tenure all are s...
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Baker, Lori, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Crazy Water : Six Fictions / Lori Baker. New York, NY : New York University Press, [1996] ©1996 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Grace -- The Drive -- Crazy Water -- Tenure Track -- Romulus -- Mother-in-Law restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Crazy Water: Six Fictions, Lori Baker pushes the boundaries between truth and reality with curious, tragi-comic results. The imagination is Baker's terrain, and in these stories, pleasant suburban childhoods, family drives, seaside vacations, and an academic's quest for tenure all are strangely warped, yet nonetheless still mirror a world we thought we knew. In these brief pages, boys become dogs, students hide in the molluscan places, and mothers do their best to rescind their unsatisfying children. "I say things smugly as if I understand them, muses one of Baker's narrators. Indeed, characters and readers alike are undermined in these deft and quirky fictions. Exposing and imploding all of our expectations, Baker shows us how menacing (and funny) the apparently ordinary can be. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Short stories, American 20th century. Short stories, American. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Baker. Lori. between. boundaries. curious. pushes. reality. truth. with. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110716924 print 9780814712832 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814723326 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814723326/original |
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