House Fires
These eleven stories travel from snowbound Buffalo in the 1940s to Boston, Providence and San Francisco in 1999, and across the domestic terrain of desire's unruly claims to the nuances of grief.... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0877456925
ISBN13:9780877456926
Release Date:October 1999
Publisher:University of Iowa Press
Length:228 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.6" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Beautiful Stories
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This is a great collection of stories by Nancy Resiman. I first heard of her in the Best American Short Stories where she had a story published. I really liked it, so I decided to check out more of her works. All of the stories are beautifully written, if a little depressing. I especially liked the series of Jessie stories that she included. This book won the Iowa Short Fiction Award in 1999, which is really prestigious (though I didn't know it before.. I mean, c'mon.. IOWA?? What are you going to write about?! Cows? But yeah, it's a really great award!).
Beautiful, heartbreaking, and funny too
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Nancy Reisman's stories are carefully considered, painstakingly crafted works, beautiful at times in the way collages are beautiful, montaged and layered and suggestive. They are ghostly sometimes, and elusive, changing depending on how the light hits them. And sometimes they are funny -- the dinner scene where the young woman is announcing that she's gay and the whole thing gets misheard by the deaf grandparent -- hysterical! And with dialogue that's so right on, so real. Nancy Reisman takes her time with her characters, she's patient with her language and with building her worlds, and I hope readers take the time to invest in these quiet, modest gems. They're so worth it.
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