Amor and Psycho, stories, Carolyn Cooke
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Amor and Psycho, stories, Carolyn Cooke
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary form
short stories
Main title
Amor and Psycho
Oclc number
818318031
Responsibility statement
Carolyn Cooke
Sub title
stories
Summary
"From the highly acclaimed author of Daughters of the Revolution and The Bostons (winner of the PEN/Bingham Award for fiction) comes a lyrical, visceral collection of short stories about sex and scars, waste and promise, with an eclectic cast of characters spanning generations and cultures. In "Francis Bacon, " an aspiring writer crafts sexual fantasies for an Upper East Side mogul. In "The Snake, " a restless psychologist sheds one existence after another, continuously restarting her life. In "The Boundary, " a resident artist on a Native American reservation connects with a charismatic, deeply troubled teenager. In the surreal "She Bites, " a man builds a doghouse as his wife slowly transforms. In "Opal is Evidence, " a woman and her 10-year-old daughter, suffering from a brain tumor, house-sit at the yurt of marijuana farmers. In "The New Skin, " a man literally unpeeled by horrific burns gradually recovers. And in the transcendent, three-part title story, two close friends confront cancer and suicide. Cooke's searing tapestry--peopled by characters who disappear and reemerge throughout the collection--explores lives ruled by illness, ritual, desire, and angst. At once philosophical and compulsively readable, Amor & Psycho dives into our dark spaces, confronting the poetry and brutality of human existence"--, Provided by publisher
Table of contents
Francis Bacon -- Aesthetic discipline -- The snake -- Amor and Psycho -- The boundary -- Isle of wigs -- She bites -- The antiheroes -- Swing -- Opal is evidence -- Among the Mezima-Wa
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