Gwen E. Kirby: Shit Cassandra Saw

Cover: 9780143136620 | Shit Cassandra Saw | Stories | Gwen E. Kirby | Taschenbuch | 288 S.

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Beschreibung

Margaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking points, from Hellenic times to today.

Cassandra may have seen the future, but it doesn't mean she's resigned to telling the Trojans everything she knows. In this ebullient collection, virgins escape from being sacrificed, witches refuse to be burned, whores aren't ashamed, and every woman gets a chance to be a radioactive cockroach warrior who snaps back at catcallers. Gwen E. Kirby experiments with found structures-a Yelp review, a WikiHow article-which her fierce, irreverent narrators push against, showing how creativity within an enclosed space undermines and deconstructs the constraints themselves. When these women tell the stories of their triumphs as well as their pain, they emerge as funny, angry, loud, horny, lonely, strong protagonists who refuse be secondary characters a moment longer. From "The Best and Only Whore of Cym Hyfryd, 1886" to the "Midwestern Girl [who] is Tired of Appearing in Your Short Stories," Kirby is playing and laughing with the women who have come before her and they are telling her, we have always been this way. You just had to know where to [...] have always been this way. You just had toknow where to look.

Über den Autor

Gwen E. Kirby is a native San Diegan and graduate of Carleton College. She has an MFA from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. Her stories appear in One Story, Tin House, Guernica, Mississippi Review, Ninth Letter, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. Guest editor Aimee Bender selected her story “Shit Cassandra Saw . . .” for Best Small Fictions 2018 and it also appears in the 2018 Wigleaf Top 50. Her story “Midwestern Girl Is Tired of Appearing in Your Short Stories” won the 2017 DISQUIET Literary Prize for Fiction and she was the 2018-2019 George Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy. Currently, she is the associate director of programs and finance for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference at the University of the South, where she also teaches creative writing.

Zusammenfassung

FUN, FUNNY STORIES: Like "Cat Person" by Kristen Roupenian, these stories will appeal even to people who don't know that they like short stories.

TOPICAL AND FEMINIST: Kirby's stories offer searing commentary on modern mysoginy, and the fact that it has stubbornly persisted over centuries.

VERY PLUGGED IN AUTHOR: Kirby is the Associate Director of Programs and Finane at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, where she meets droves of writers each year.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	288 S.
ISBN-13:	9780143136620
ISBN-10:	0143136623
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Kirby, Gwen E.
Hersteller:	Penguin LLC US Penguin Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	125 x 193 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Gwen E. Kirby
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.01.2022
Gewicht:	0,228 kg

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