A01=David Kranes
Author_David Kranes
bizarre
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comical
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escape-artist
fire-eater
heart-tugging
humanity
insecurity
ironic
knife-thrower
Landscapes
Las Vegas
performers
quirky
risk-takers
short stories
stand-up comedy
talent
unexpected
unique
unpredictable
weight-loss artist
Product details
- ISBN 9781647790141
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 05 Oct 2021
- Publisher: University of Nevada Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Part of our socialization is the urge-to-perform. We perform images of ourselves for others. If we are successful, we are called on to perform. For some, the urge is so great and the talent sufficient, that we become performers. Performance Art is a book about performers and performances which are extreme. Most of these stories and their performers and performances are at the edge of dream.
David Kranes is the author of eight novels and three volumes of short stories, including Abracadabra, Keno Runner: A Dark Romance. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah and is professor emeritus of English at University of Utah. Kranes writes about magicians, gamblers, hit men, painters, casino workers. His characters are frequently displaced seekers with volatile emotions—but always human. He writes about the West. And his characters struggle and love in its surreal landscapes of Las Vegas casinos, Utah deserts, and Montana towns. He exposes the magic in the mundane, the surreal in the simple, and the bizarre in the banal. His work superbly balances the fantastical with the raw.
