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abandonment
Adolescence and identity
Author_Victoria Lancelotta
avant-garde literature
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creative fiction
creative writing
desire for escape
Domestic tension
Emotional dislocation
emotional violence
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Existential longing
Experimental fiction
experimental storytelling
experimental writing
familial betrayal
Family dynamics
FC2
Female perspective
fiction
fiction collective 2
grief
Grief and desire
Intimate landscapes
limits of faith
Lyrical prose
Narrative fragmentation
novel
Psychological realism
redemption
Rootlessness
Sensory storytelling
shame
Suburban surrealism
trauma
Trauma and memory
Product details
- ISBN 9781573662017
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2023
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The stories in Victoria Lancelotta’s Ways to Disappear excavate the unexamined places between dread and desire, promise and threat, where the body is both prison and salvation. Populated by the grieving and the exultant and those who see no difference between the two, by men and women who are only a little bit broken and boys and girls who can’t wait to be, by souls untethered, rootless, yet bound by blood and flesh, Lancelotta’s characters are driven by the irresistible need to be a bigger part of the worlds they each inhabit, by turns strange and commonplace. In language lush and jagged, never sentimental, these stories scrutinize the exhaustion and enchantment of the everyday: houses seething with resentment and devotion, cars dream-full and hurtling the children in them into a world they think they know but can’t imagine; front porches, back yards, luxury hotels, and truck stops. Lancelotta understands that sometimes people check their wounds not to see if they’ve healed, but to be sure they’re still there.
Victoria Lancelotta is author of Here in the World: 13 Stories, and the novels Far and Coeurs Blesses. Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. She is the recipient of a Tennessee Individual Artist Fellowship, multiple Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grants, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She lives in Frederick MD.
