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Black light, stories, Kimberly King Parsons

Label
Black light, stories, Kimberly King Parsons
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Black light
Responsibility statement
Kimberly King Parsons
Sub title
stories
Summary
With raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire's darkest hollows - those hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. In this debut collection of enormously perceptive and brutally unsentimental short stories, Parsons illuminates the ache of first love, the banality of self-loathing, the scourge of addiction, the myth of marriage, and the magic and inevitable disillusionment of childhood. Taking us from hot Texas highways to cold family kitchens, from the freedom of pay-by-the-hour motels to the claustrophobia of private school dorms, these stories erupt off the page with a primal howl - sharp-voiced, acerbic, and wise
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