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creative fiction
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ENVIRONMENTAL APOCALYPSE
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
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ETYMOLOGY
Experimental fiction
experimental storytelling
experimental writing
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fiction
fiction collective 2
INDUSTRIAL DYSTOPIA
INFANT CORPSES
novel
WOMEN'S STUDIES
Product details
- ISBN 9781573660723
- Weight: 205g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 10 Sep 2019
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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An intensely personal, surreal imagining of how humans might survive industrialization.
In Slater Orchard, a cleaning woman navigates a half-imaginary world ravaged by industrial waste and pollution. As she labors to grow pear trees in a dumpster, appearances unravel around and within her, and the orchard becomes a burial ground. We begin to question both the reliability of the narrator and of consensual reality.
With sharp wit and precise diction, Darcie Dennigan calls on and works in the lineage of great modernist women, from Clarice Lispector to Marie Redonnet. Slater Orchard is thoroughly contemporary in its themes, however, evincing dire questions of rampant capitalism and climate change that are rapidly changing our world and the exigencies of living in it.
In Slater Orchard, a cleaning woman navigates a half-imaginary world ravaged by industrial waste and pollution. As she labors to grow pear trees in a dumpster, appearances unravel around and within her, and the orchard becomes a burial ground. We begin to question both the reliability of the narrator and of consensual reality.
With sharp wit and precise diction, Darcie Dennigan calls on and works in the lineage of great modernist women, from Clarice Lispector to Marie Redonnet. Slater Orchard is thoroughly contemporary in its themes, however, evincing dire questions of rampant capitalism and climate change that are rapidly changing our world and the exigencies of living in it.
Darcie Dennigan is an award-winning poet and playwright whose books include Madame X and The Parking Lot and other feral scenarios. She lives in Providence, RI.
