Compression Scars

Informationen zum Autor Kellie Wells teaches in the writing program at Washington University in St. Louis. Her fiction has appeared in the "Kenyon Review," "Gettysburg Review," "Prairie Schooner," and other journals. Klappentext The eleven stories in Kellie Wells's debut collection cover a wide range of eccentric characters - from a young girl experiencing her friend's strange demise to a set of opposite-sex conjoined twins. Forced to deal with the debilitating confines of the physical world! usually manifest in some kind of deformity or affliction! from compression scars to mysterious blue skin! Wells's characters struggle to transcend their existential disappointments and find some way and someone to love. Zusammenfassung Compression Scars is an eloquent and original collection that vibrantly captures the oddities of both the everyday and the out-of-this-world. The eleven stories in Kellie Wells's debut collection cover a wide range of eccentric characters who struggle to transcend their existential disappointments and find some way and someone to love.

Product details

• Authors: Kellie Wells
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2011
• EAN: 9780820340463
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4046-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Sh; Flannery O'Connor Award for Sh
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature