We Show What We Have Learned & Other Stories

We Show What We Have Learned & Other Stories

Joyce Carol Oates calls debut author Clare Beams â€œwickedly sharp-eyed, wholly unpredictable Â…a female /feminist voice for the twenty-first century.â€
The literary, historic, and fantastic collide in these wise and exquisitely unsettling stories. From bewildering assemblies in school auditoriums to the murky waters of a Depression-era health resort, Beamsâ€™s landscapes are tinged with otherworldliness, and her charactersâ€™ desires stretch the limits of reality. Ing Ã©nues at a boarding school bind themselves to their headmasterâ€™s vision of perfection ; a nineteenth-century landscape architect embarks on his first major project, but finds the terrain of class and power intractable ; a bride glimpses her husbandâ€™s past when she wears his World War II parachute as a gown ; and a teacher comes undone in front of her astonished fifth graders.
As they capture the strangeness of being human, the stories in We Show What We Have Learned reveal Clare Beamsâ€™s rare and capacious imaginationâ€”and yet they are grounded in emotional complexity, illuminating the ways we attempt to transform ourselves, our surroundings, and each other.
Country USA
Brand Lookout Books
Manufacturer Lookout Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781940596143
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781940596143
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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