In this Book
- The Quarry
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of Georgia Press
- Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
summary
At the heart of this collection of five short stories and the title novella is the powerful interconnection between parents and children, nostalgia and memory, and the collective emotional intimacies and transactions that configure human behavior.
Incisive and witty meditations on the disruptions and difficulties of family life, the stories in The Quarry focus on the precariously balanced world of anxious and awkward sons and painfully failed or failing fathers. The title novella sifts through the irreparable moral and psychological confusion brought about by the Holocaust, following two families as they struggle to reconcile themselves to personal disorder and private grief--with no illusory platitudes about the redemptive power of suffering.
With unerring compassion for conveying emotional revelations and a keen sensitivity to the frailty and malleability of the human spirit, The Quarry lures the reader into confronting the most hidden and disquieting parts of the buried self.
Table of Contents
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- Hearts & Minds
- pp. 31-67
- Home Burial
- pp. 69-90
- Leisure World
- pp. 91-117
- Promised Land
- pp. 119-152
- The Quarry
- pp. 153-263
Additional Information
ISBN
9780820344829
Related ISBN(s)
9780820318967
MARC Record
OCLC
854583762
Pages
280
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No