All Around Atlantis

All Around Atlantis
ISBN-10
0374270872
ISBN-13
9780374270872
Category
Short stories
Pages
287
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Macmillan
Author
Deborah Eisenberg

Description

Deborah Eisenberg's daring and original fiction has placed her among the small group of contemporary writers who are shaping the future direction of the genre. Her deeply etched and mysterious stories focus on individuals grappling with the dislocations, ironies, and compromises levied by ordinary reality and the vivid, troubling worlds her characters inhabit. In "The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor", a messenger arrives to conduct a boarding-school girl into an utterly unexpected future; in "Across the Lake", a well-meaning college student on summer vacation finds that he is a voyeur -- and possibly worse -- at a guerrilla war he almost failed to notice; in "Mermaids", some suburban schoolchildren try to navigate through the "acceptable level" of adult pollution around them; in "Someone to Talk To", an aging not-quite prodigy finds himself giving a concert in a banana republic. With lyrical and gleaming prose, Eisenberg pries open daily life to explore the hidden mechanisms of human behavior.

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