Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant

Informationen zum Autor Aurelie Sheehan, the director of the creative writing program at the University of Arizona, has received a Pushcart Prize, a Camargo Fellowship, and the Jack Kerouac Literary Award. Klappentext -- First paperback edition.-- A collection of fifteen stories which chronicle the lives of women trying to break out of imposed roles -- from prostitute to tarot card reader to wealthy widow. Here are the dreams of misplaced waitresses, the survival techniques of secretaries too smart to take orders.-- Insightful and often bitingly funny, Sheehan's stories are poetically layered and contrasted, offering glimpses of the world these women inhabit as seen through a kaleidoscope -- each shift creating new impressions.-- Originally published by Dalkey Archive (1994). Zusammenfassung "It takes so long to see you are a slave," muses one character in these lyrical, sometimes bitingly funny chronicles of women breaking out of imposed roles.?"Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant "chronicles the dreams of misplaced waitresses, prostitutes and other working girls, the survival techniques of secretaries too smart to take orders. Using narrative elements poetically, Sheehan subverts the notion of linear storytelling, creating kaleidoscopic stories by layering and contrasting various elements.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Aurelie Sheehan, Aurelie Sheehan
• Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 25.09.2009
• EAN: 9781564782625
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-262-5
• Seiten: 188
• Serien: American Literature (Dalkey Ar; American Literature (Dalkey Ar; American Literature; American Literature (Dalkey Archive)
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett