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Daryl Glenn The Girl with Two Left Breasts (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Girl with Two Left Breasts
- Publication Name
- The Girl with Two Left Breasts
- Title
- The Girl with Two Left Breasts
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781597091398
- ISBN
- 9781597091398
- Publisher
- Red Hen Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 2010
- Release Date
- 15/07/2010
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 10.2 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Topic
- African American / General, Short Stories (Single Author), General
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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The stories in The Girl with Two Left Breasts focus on a new generation of African-Americans, who, having had access to the education their parents could only dream of, now face the challenges of living in an insane postmodern world. Readers will encounter stories shaped and styled for the new millennium as image and metaphor are taffy-stretched and virtually collapsed in order to depict how, at this unique juncture barely beyond our century's turn, cultures, genders, and points of view collide as characters struggle with issues of race, identity, sex and addiction in an unforgiving urban milieu. Publisher Fiction Collective 2 calls Glenn's work "An important new voice speaking to us throughout the stories in an array of vivid, unusual tongues, all of them full of intellect, passion and poetry. Moreover, the collection strikes one as having been written by someone whose literary sensibility is already fully formed." This is fiction that is sometimes darkly humorous or humorously dark, deftly sidestepping facile categorization and often, like a koan, unfolding with a lyrical sort of dissonance.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Red Hen Press
ISBN-10
1597091391
ISBN-13
9781597091398
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102948108
Product Key Features
Book Title
Girl with Two Left Breasts
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
African American / General, Short Stories (Single Author), General
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3607.L45g57 2009
Reviews
"D.V. Glenn's writings are ignored at great peril." -Don Davis, composer of The Matrix , The Matrix Reloaded , The Matrix Revolution s, "D.V. Glenn's writings are ignored at great peril." --Don Davis, composer of The Matrix , The Matrix Reloaded , The Matrix Revolution s, "Savagely ironic and boldly imaginative, D.V. Glenn's unique collection of farflung tales delivers moments of intoxicating beauty and sobering ugliness. These fictions challenge the things we hold sacred with the killer instinct and deft hand of our best satirists. " -Josh Pyror, author ofMonkey in the Middle, "When the post-Carver short story declared war on interiority and elaboration, someone failed to notify D.V. Glenn. He loans his hallucinatory and fecund style to characters who find themselves in scenes one imagines would have been limned by Dostoevsky's, Kafka's and Ralph Ellison's narrators, had they survived into the period we blithely call 'postmodern.' Glenn's stories are united by a mixture of lucidity and the sobering humor that unites memorable moments in stories written by Phillip Roth and Sherman Alexie, moments born of the exhaustion that comes from fighting the good fight. "-Zoran Kuzmanvich, Professor of English, Editor,Nabokov Studies, "Savagely ironic and boldly imaginative, Daryl Glenn's unique collection of farflung tales delivers moments of intoxicating beauty and sobering ugliness. These fictions challenge the things we hold sacred with the killer instinct and deft hand of our best satirists. " -Josh Pyror, author ofMonkey in the Middle , “When the post-Carver short story declared war on interiority and elaboration, someone failed to notify D.V. Glenn. He loans his hallucinatory and fecund style to characters who find themselves in scenes one imagines would have been limned by Dostoevsky's, Kafka's and Ralph Ellison's narrators, had they survived into the period we blithely call 'postmodern.' Glenn's stories are united by a mixture of lucidity and the sobering humor that unites memorable moments in stories written by Phillip Roth and Sherman Alexie, moments born of the exhaustion that comes from fighting the good fight. � -Zoran Kuzmanvich, Professor of English, Editor, Nabokov Studies, “D.V. Glenn's writings are ignored at great peril .� -Don Davis, composer of The Matrix , The Matrix Reloaded , The Matrix Revolution s, "When the post-Carver short story declared war on interiority and elaboration, someone failed to notify Daryl V. Glenn. He loans his hallucinatory and fecund style to characters who find themselves in scenes one imagines would have been limned by Dostoevsky's, Kafka's and Ralph Ellison's narrators, had they survived into the period we blithely call 'post-modern.' Glenn's stories are united by a mixture of lucidity and the sobering humor that unites memorable moments in stories written by Phillip Roth and Sherman Alexie, moments born of the exhaustion that comes from fighting the good fight. " -Zoran Kuzmanvich, Professor of English, Editor,Nabokov Studies, "D.V. Glenn's writings are ignored at great peril. " -Don Davis, composer ofThe Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions , "D.V. Glenn's fictions explore wondrous worlds of wordplay, but do so, as does all the best innovative writing, in the service of the human heart rather than as mere showcase for erudite technical pyrotechnics. His work reminds me of the best music of Jimi Hendrix, which, despite its dazzling and dynamic derring-do, has the power to humble one's feelings and elicit empathy, sympathy, and even sociopathy in arresting and original ways. Glenn's investigations into the nature of the father-son relationship ("My Father's Penis"), the consciousness of the killer in the self ("Serial Killer Museum"), the love of a pimp for a 14-year-old hooker ("Chantelle"), the relative humanity of a so-called 'Superman' ("Kewl Kryptonian"), a student's need to graduate high school at all costs even if that means submitting to a pedophile teacher ("The English Teacher's Pupil"), the difference between dreams of academic success and the reality of tough life ("Shot in the Head"), and ten more such investigations into the same blue underbelly of society that fascinated Hendrix are powerful and emotive. As solid as the subject matter is, though, it is the skill of the teller that sets these fictions apart from most others. I'm pretty sure D.V. Glenn writes these things behind his back and with his teeth and then sets them on fire. Wow." -Eckhard Gerdes, author of My Landlady the Lobotomist, "D.V. Glenn's fictions explore wondrous worlds of wordplay, but do so, as does all the best innovative writing, in the service of the human heart rather than as mere showcase for erudite technical pyrotechnics. His work reminds me of the best music of Jimi Hendrix, which, despite its dazzling and dynamic derring-do, has the power to humble one's feelings and elicit empathy, sympathy, and even sociopathy in arresting and original ways. Glenn's investigations into the nature of the father-son relationship ("My Father's Penis"), the consciousness of the killer in the self ("Serial Killer Museum"), the love of a pimp for a 14-year-old hooker ("Chantelle"), the relative humanity of a so-called 'Superman' ("Kewl Kryptonian"), a student's need to graduate high school at all costs even if that means submitting to a pedophile teacher ("The English Teacher's Pupil"), the difference between dreams of academic success and the reality of tough life ("Shot in the Head"), and ten more such investigations into the same blue underbelly of society that fascinated Hendrix are powerful and emotive. As solid as the subject matter is, though, it is the skill of the teller that sets these fictions apart from most others. I'm pretty sure D.V. Glenn writes these things behind his back and with his teeth and then sets them on fire. Wow." --Eckhard Gerdes, author of My Landlady the Lobotomist, "Savagely ironic and boldly imaginative, D.V. Glenn's unique collection of farflung tales delivers moments of intoxicating beauty and sobering ugliness. These fictions challenge the things we hold sacred with the killer instinct and deft hand of our best satirists." --Josh Pyror, author of Monkey in the Middle, "Savagely ironic and boldly imaginative, D.V. Glenn's unique collection of farflung tales delivers moments of intoxicating beauty and sobering ugliness. These fictions challenge the things we hold sacred with the killer instinct and deft hand of our best satirists." -Josh Pyror, author of Monkey in the Middle, "When the post-Carver short story declared war on interiority and elaboration, someone failed to notify D.V. Glenn. He loans his hallucinatory and fecund style to characters who find themselves in scenes one imagines would have been limned by Dostoevsky's, Kafka's and Ralph Ellison's narrators, had they survived into the period we blithely call 'postmodern.' Glenn's stories are united by a mixture of lucidity and the sobering humor that unites memorable moments in stories written by Phillip Roth and Sherman Alexie, moments born of the exhaustion that comes from fighting the good fight." --Zoran Kuzmanvich, Professor of English, Editor, Nabokov Studies, “Savagely ironic and boldly imaginative, D.V. Glenn's unique collection of farflung tales delivers moments of intoxicating beauty and sobering ugliness. These fictions challenge the things we hold sacred with the killer instinct and deft hand of our best satirists. � -Josh Pyror, author of Monkey in the Middle, "D.V. Glenn's fictions explore wondrous worlds of wordplay, but do so, as does all the best innovative writing, in the service of the human heart rather than as mere showcase for erudite technical pyrotechnics. His work reminds me of the best music of Jimi Hendrix, which, despite its dazzling and dynamic derring-do, has the power to humble one's feelings and elicit empathy, sympathy, and even sociopathy in arresting and original ways. Glenn's investigations into the nature of the father-son relationship ("My Father's Penis"), the consciousness of the killer in the self ("Serial Killer Museum"), the love of a pimp for a 14-year-old hooker ("Chantelle"), the relative humanity of a so-called 'Superman' ("Kewl Kryptonian"), a student's need to graduate high school at all costs even if that means submitting to a pedophile teacher ("The English Teacher's Pupil"), the difference between dreams of academic success and the reality of tough life ("Shot in the Head"), and ten more such investigations into the same blue underbelly of society that fascinated Hendrix are powerful and emotive. As solid as the subject matter is, though, it is the skill of the teller that sets these fictions apart from most others. I'm pretty sure D.V. Glenn writes these things behind his back and with his teeth and then sets them on fire. Wow. "-Eckhard Gerdes, author ofMy Landlady the Lobotomist, "When the post-Carver short story declared war on interiority and elaboration, someone failed to notify D.V. Glenn. He loans his hallucinatory and fecund style to characters who find themselves in scenes one imagines would have been limned by Dostoevsky's, Kafka's and Ralph Ellison's narrators, had they survived into the period we blithely call 'postmodern.' Glenn's stories are united by a mixture of lucidity and the sobering humor that unites memorable moments in stories written by Phillip Roth and Sherman Alexie, moments born of the exhaustion that comes from fighting the good fight." -Zoran Kuzmanvich, Professor of English, Editor, Nabokov Studies, “D.V. Glenn's fictions explore wondrous worlds of wordplay, but do so, as does all the best innovative writing, in the service of the human heart rather than as mere showcase for erudite technical pyrotechnics. His work reminds me of the best music of Jimi Hendrix, which, despite its dazzling and dynamic derring-do, has the power to humble one's feelings and elicit empathy, sympathy, and even sociopathy in arresting and original ways. Glenn's investigations into the nature of the father-son relationship ("My Father's Penis"), the consciousness of the killer in the self ("Serial Killer Museum"), the love of a pimp for a 14-year-old hooker ("Chantelle"), the relative humanity of a so-called 'Superman' ("Kewl Kryptonian"), a student's need to graduate high school at all costs even if that means submitting to a pedophile teacher ("The English Teacher's Pupil"), the difference between dreams of academic success and the reality of tough life ("Shot in the Head"), and ten more such investigations into the same blue underbelly of society that fascinated Hendrix are powerful and emotive. As solid as the subject matter is, though, it is the skill of the teller that sets these fictions apart from most others. I'm pretty sure D.V. Glenn writes these things behind his back and with his teeth and then sets them on fire. Wow . � -Eckhard Gerdes, author of My Landlady the Lobotomist
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2009
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