Will She Understand?: New Short Stories - Softcover

Dawson, Fielding

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0876857292 ISBN 13: 9780876857298

Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, 1988

Synopsis

Written in New York between 1982 and 1987, the short stories in Will She Understand? bring us up to date with Fielding Dawson's work since the publication of Krazy Kat & 76 More, Collected Stories 1950-1976 and Virginia Dare, Stories 1976-1981. Reviewing Krazy Kat, the San Francisco Chronicle's critic compared the work favorably with Hemingway, Cain and Chandler, and suggested that "Dawson makes his foreground study that underbelly of society which the hard-boiled school had described only as backdrop."

In these 32 new stories, Dawson confirms and extends his mastery of a form he helped invent: the projectivist tale, in which a heightened sensitivity of attention registers in hair's-breadth detail not just physical realities but emotional events occurring in transformational, dreamlike, intuitional dimensions way off the tone-scale of the old, tired English narrative sentence.

About this title

About the Author:

Fielding Dawson's fiction, essays and art/literary criticism appeared in newspapers, magazines and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad for over thirty years. During his lifetime he published 23 books--stories, novels, memoirs and poems. He attended Black Mountain College from 1949 to 1953, where he studied with such writers and artists as Charles Olson and Franz Kline. In 1956 he moved to New York City, continuing to write and create paintings, drawings and collages. In 1984 he began to teach writing workshops in U.S. prisons, and later also worked with at-risk teenagers in alternative high schools. Fielding was chairman of the PEN Prison Writing Committee and director of the PEN Prison Writing Workshop Program. His literary archives are held by the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut at Storrs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0876857292
• ISBN 13: 9780876857298
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180