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Trailer Girl and Other Stories
by
Terese Svoboda (Goodreads Author)
In this stunningly original collection of seventeen short stories, Terese Svoboda navigates a terrain of alienation and loss with searing, poetic prose.Watch the Trailer Girl book trailer on YouTube.
Paperback, 248 pages
Published
December 1st 2009
by UNP - Bison Books
(first published 2001)
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One of my favorite short story collections of all time is Black Tickets, a masterpiece written by Jayne Anne Phillips in the 1970s. So hauntingly poetic and impressive were these stories written about rootless misfits by a young and relatively unknown writer that a giant of the short story genre, Raymond Carver, contributed a blurb to the book’s back cover. He wrote: “These stories of America’s disenfranchised are unlike any in our literature. She is an original, and this book of hers is a crook...more
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I just read the new paperback edition from the University of Nebraska Press and it really bulldozed me expectations. A scintillating collision of uber literary style and low brow story. Full review to come...
Terese Svoboda has it!!! She weaves atmosphere in a way many writers can't do..You can just feel the landscape, the weather, the emotions. Beautiful writing.
I didn't take to these stories at all. The language was odd and terse and there was an underlying violence to each story that was unnerving.
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Terese Svoboda has published 12 books of prose and poetry, most recently, Pirate Talk or Mermalade. Bohemian Girl, her fifth novel, will appear fall 2011. Svoboda's writing has been featured in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic, Slate, BOMB, Columbia, Yale Review, and the Paris Review. She lives in New York.
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