The girl of the lake
Subtitle: stories
By: Bill Roorbach
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781616203320
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Social life and customs; Interpersonal relations; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Nine richly varied, often funny, always moving stories that cross a range of landscapes and generations to reveal the complex workings of the human heart. Bill Roorbach conjures vivid, complex characters whose layered interior worlds feel at once familiar and extraordinary. He first made his mark as the winner of an O. Henry Prize for one of his stories and the Flannery O'Connor Award for his first collection, Big Bend. His astounding new collection, The Girl of the Lake, captures a virtuoso in his prime. Among the unforgettable characters Roorbach creates are an adventurous boy who learns what courage really is when an aging nobleman recounts history to him; a couple hiking through the mountains whose vacation and relationship ends catastrophically; a teenager being pursued by three sisters all at once; a tech genius who exacts revenge on his wife and best friend over a stolen kiss from years past; and many more. These stories--some being published for the first time, the rest originally from the Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Ploughshares, the Missouri Review, Ecotone, and others--are as rich in scope, emotional, and unforgettable as Bill Roorbach's novels. He has been called "a kinder, gentler John Irving . . . a humane and entertaining storyteller with a smooth, graceful style" (the Washington Post), and his work has been described as "hilarious and heartbreaking, wild and wise" (Parade magazine), all of which is evident in spades (and also hearts, clubs, and diamonds) in every story in this arresting new collection"--
Table of contents: title: Harbinger Hall --; title: Kiva --; title: The fall --; title: Murder cottage --; title: Princesa --; title: Broadax, Inc. --; title: The tragedie of King Lear --; title: Some should --; title: Dung beetle --; title: The girl of the lake.