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- Father Flashes
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
summary
Father Flashes reimagines what the novel can be or do. Composed of stunning vignettes that capture the deterioration of a father’s mind and body, this novel provides poetic insight into the complex workings of a father-daughter relationship. As the father collapses, what appears is the daughter’s struggle to simply cope. In prose composed of intense and moving shards, Tricia Bauer delivers a revealing account of the gradual decomposition of all that is familiar and of a daughter’s gathering of memories to form the arresting collage that is Father Flashes.
Table of Contents
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- I. The Signs
- First Symptoms
- pp. 5-6
- Returning Home
- pp. 9-10
- Their Repetitions
- pp. 11-12
- Sweet Potatoes
- pp. 13-14
- Everything We Save
- pp. 17-32
- This Disease
- pp. 22-37
- The Quiet Ones
- pp. 23-24
- II. The Enternanment Center
- Adult Day Care
- pp. 29-30
- Fast Train, Fast Water
- pp. 43-58
- III. The Language of the (Not-So) Dead
- The Language of the Body
- pp. 47-62
- The Language of Resistance
- pp. 48-63
- The Language of Duplicity
- pp. 49-64
- The Language of Ancestors
- pp. 50-65
- Dialogue (With the Selves)
- pp. 51-66
- The Earliest Language
- pp. 52-67
- IV. The Garden Room
- Taking Form
- pp. 59-74
- The Metaphor
- pp. 67-82
- V. The Dreams We Remember
- The Dream of Carrying Him
- pp. 71-86
- The Dream of Ancestors
- pp. 72-87
- Dream of the Self
- pp. 73-88
- The Dream of Playing Golf
- pp. 74-89
- The Dream of Children
- pp. 75-90
- Dream of the Dark
- pp. 76-77
- My Favorite Dream
- pp. 78-93
Additional Information
ISBN
9781573668248
Related ISBN(s)
9781573661607
MARC Record
OCLC
785776372
Pages
93
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2011
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