| Vertigo Contributor(s): Walsh, Joanna (Author) |
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ISBN: 0989760758 ISBN-13: 9780989760751 Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 823.92 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.5" W x 6.9" (0.35 lbs) 120 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fiction. Women's Studies. Joanna Walsh's haunting and unforgettable stories enact a literal vertigo--the feeling that if I fall I will fall not toward the earth but into space--by probing the spaces between things. Waiting for news in a children's hospital, pondering her husband's multiple online flirtations or observing the tourists and locals at a third-world archeological site, her narrator approaches the suppressed state of panic coursing beneath things that are normally tamed by our blunted perceptions of ordinary life. VERTIGO is an original and breathtaking book.--Chris Kraus With wry humor and profound sensitivity, Walsh takes what is mundane and transforms it into something otherworldly with sentences that can make your heart stop. A feat of language.--Kirkus, starred review Walsh's penetrating short story collection evokes the titular feeling of dizziness... these stories offer a compelling pitch into the inner life.--Publishers Weekly |
Contributor Bio(s): Walsh, Joanna: - JOANNA WALSH is a British writer and illustrator. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Narrative, and Guernica and has been anthologized in Dalkey's Best European Fiction 2015, Best British Short Stories 2014, and elsewhere. A collection, Fractals, was published in the UK in 2013, and her nonfiction book Hotel was published internationally in 2015. She writes literary and cultural criticism for The Guardian, The New Statesman, and The National, is the fiction editor at 3: am Magazine, and created and runs the Twitter hashtag #readwomen, heralded by the New York Times as "a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers." |