false<![CDATA[Legend of a Suicide]]>50864173Winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction - In 'Ichthyology,' a young boy watches his father spiral from divorce to suicide. The story is told obliquely, often through the boy s observations of his tropical fish, yet also reveals his father s last desperate moves, including quitting dentistry for commercial fishing in the Bering Sea. Rhoda goes back to the beginning of the father s second marriage and the boy s fascination with his stepmother, who has one partially closed eye. This eye becomes a metaphor for the adult world the boy can't yet see into, including sexuality and despair, which feel like the key initiating elements of the father's eventual suicide. 'A Legend of Good Men' tells the story of the boy's life with his mother after his father s death through the series of men she dates. In 'Sukkwan Island,' an extraordinary novella, the father invites the boy homesteading for a year on a remote island in the southeastern Alaskan wilderness. As the situation spins out of control, the son witnesses his father's despair and takes matters into his own hands. In 'Ketchikan,' the boy is now thirty years old, searching for the origin of ruin. He tracks down Gloria, the woman his father first cheated with, and is left with the sense of a world held in place, as it turned out, by nothing at all. Set in Fairbanks, where the author's father actually killed himself, 'The Higher Blue' provides an epilogue to the collection.515314130112008Legend Of A Suicide (AWP Award Series in Short Fiction)total:30|5:10|4:16|3:2|2:1|1:1|301231231452falsefalseSun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009Mon Dec 29 20:14:27 -0800 2008Mon Jan 19 21:18:34 -0800 2009
more...]]>
41falsefalseThu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009Wed Oct 21 13:45:16 -0700 2009Wed Oct 21 13:53:12 -0700 2009
Legend of a Suicide is one of those books that takes concepts like ‘novel’ and ‘short story collection’, tears them up into tiny pieces, and leaves the reader to make sense of the result. It comprises six chapters/stories, the longest of which takes up 170 of the 230 pages. Th...more...]]>
40falsefalseTue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009Sun Nov 08 16:19:04 -0800 2009Sun Nov 08 16:20:14 -0800 2009
more...]]>
40falsefalseSat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009Sat Sep 26 13:09:43 -0700 2009Sat Oct 10 13:40:48 -0700 2009 The synopsis of the book does not reflect the book I read. I...more...]]>
50falsefalseSat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009Wed Nov 25 08:11:47 -0800 2009Wed Nov 25 08:22:30 -0800 2009
It's an intense look at a father and son, told from varying points of view and with a disconnection that allowed the writer to be ...more...]]>
50falsefalseSat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009Wed Dec 31 09:35:42 -0800 2008Sat Feb 14 19:46:53 -0800 2009
more...]]>
42falsefalseTue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009Mon Nov 09 00:46:21 -0800 2009Tue Nov 10 05:45:51 -0800 2009
more...]]>
50falsefalseSun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009Wed Mar 18 18:41:26 -0700 2009Wed Mar 18 18:46:19 -0700 200910falsefalseFri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009Sat May 09 16:37:40 -0700 2009Sat May 09 16:37:40 -0700 200940falsefalseThu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009Mon Feb 23 16:02:58 -0800 2009Mon Feb 23 16:04:43 -0800 2009
Fiction Writers Review.]]>
00falsefalseSat Nov 29 07:23:12 -0800 2008Sat Nov 29 07:23:53 -0800 200850falsefalseTue Nov 24 12:53:45 -0800 2009Tue Nov 24 12:53:45 -0800 200930falsefalseWed Sep 16 08:44:16 -0700 2009Wed Sep 16 08:44:57 -0700 200950falsefalseSat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009Wed May 13 04:12:56 -0700 2009Mon Oct 26 04:18:36 -0700 200900falsefalseSat Nov 28 07:01:12 -0800 2009Sat Nov 28 07:01:12 -0800 200900falsefalseFri Nov 27 04:45:22 -0800 2009Fri Nov 27 04:45:22 -0800 200900falsefalseThu Nov 26 18:50:05 -0800 2009Thu Nov 26 18:50:05 -0800 200940falsefalseWed Nov 25 01:38:14 -0800 2009Wed Nov 25 01:38:14 -0800 200900falsefalseTue Nov 24 06:37:03 -0800 2009Tue Nov 24 06:37:03 -0800 200940falsefalseMon Nov 23 03:41:40 -0800 2009Mon Nov 23 03:41:40 -0800 2009
http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6466724