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Drastic: Stories
Maud Casey
Drastic: Stories
Maud Casey
Meet the college graduate working in a whole body?donation clinic; a young woman obsessed with Benedictine monks; a middle-aged woman who becomes a stand-in talk-show guest; unlikely friends who meet in a domestic violence shelter; a young girl and the father who stole her away to escape his wife's mental illness; a graduate student from a suburban family who believes her physical connection to the world is deteriorating. Maud Casey -- author of The Shape of Things to Come, a New York Times Notable Book -- explores how we survive modern crises of loss and love through the lives of emotional and geographic nomads. Each flirts with madness and self-destruction while reaching toward life. These simple gestures of optimism and vitality, gorgeously rendered, make drastic an unforgettable collection.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | July 8, 2003 |
ISBN13 | 9780060512552 |
Publishers | Harper Perennial |
Pages | 224 |
Dimensions | 134 × 15 × 201 mm · 176 g |
Language | English |