In this Book
- ActivAmerica
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of North Texas Press
- Series: Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction
summary
Drawing from fairy tales, ghost stories, and science-fiction, the stories in ActivAmerica explore how we confront (and exert) power and re-imagine ourselves through sports and athletic activities. A group of girls starts an illicit hockey league in a conservative suburb. A recently separated woman must run a mile a day in order to maintain her new corporate health insurance. Children impacted by environmental disaster create a “mutant soccer team.” Two sisters are visited by an Olympic gymnast who demands increasingly dangerous moves from them. Sports allow the characters to form communities on soccer fields and hidden lakes, in overgrown backyards and across Ping-Pong tables. Throughout the collection, however, athletic risk also comes with unexpected, often unsettling results.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- The All-Mutant Soccer Team
- pp. 1-13
- ActivAmerica
- pp. 14-28
- Backyard Dreams
- pp. 40-47
- Ping-Pong, 12 Loring Place
- pp. 57-61
- The Hawthorne Dynasty
- pp. 62-72
- Jews in Sports
- pp. 76-91
- Autumn Begins in Hawthorne, New York
- pp. 92-98
- Calling All Soloflex Men
- pp. 99-111
- Girlhunt, Spring 1999
- pp. 112-115
- The Body in Space
- pp. 116-129
- Egg Toss, August 1989
- pp. 130-131
- Night Games
- pp. 132-148
- Love Song for Ellipticals After Divorce
- pp. 168-170
- Reverse Trampoline Fail
- pp. 171-175
- Tampax Pearl Active Soccer Girl
- pp. 176-180
Additional Information
ISBN
9781574417050
Related ISBN(s)
9781574416947
MARC Record
OCLC
1012343027
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-03
Language
English
Open Access
No