Crash and Tell: Stories (Yellow Shoe Fiction) - Softcover

Baker, Lori

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807142069 ISBN 13: 9780807142066

Publisher: LSU Press, 2011

Synopsis

Sometimes wildly funny, yet often serious, jarringly uncanny yet realistic, the stories in Lori Baker's Crash & Tell seem to come from a different time and place. In her darkly whimsical world, Baker plays with a variety of narrative voices and styles, skillfully treading the line between traditional storytelling and the literary avant-garde. The interconnected stories provide a revealing account of women's lives, exploring the dark side of romance and the workplace. Laced with the surreal, the familiar neighborhoods of our lives grow strange through the lens of memory and murder.
From the comical re-imagining of Jane Goodall's life among the apes -- told from the eyes of Jane as a debutante escapee -- to a professional research subject who outwits a cunning psychiatrist; a photographer who must come to grips with a peculiar family obsession; a bored wife on vacation experiencing an unexpected seaside interlude with an oddly menacing dentist; and a car crash that leads to the most unromantic of romances -- the alienated suburbanites of these tales value memories (and ghosts) over people.

About this title

Book Description:

In Crash & Tell, Lori Baker plays with a variety of narrative voices and styles, skillfully treading the line between traditional storytelling and the literary avant-garde. The collection provides a unique account of women's lives, exploring the dark side of romance, workplaces laced with the surreal, and familiar neighborhoods made strange through the lens of memory and murder.

About the Author:

Lori Baker taught fiction at Brown University and is the author of Crazy Water: Six Fictions, which won the Mamdouha S. Bobst Literary Award for Short Stories.

About this edition

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0807142069
• ISBN 13: 9780807142066
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144