Bøger af Joan Connor

Looking for love after forty: comic, dark, brassy, intelligent.

The Corner of East and Dreams is a collection of nineteen stories which are off-kilter in some way. The stories include re-tellings -- Cassie Bunyan's Yarn which gives a voice to Paul Bunyan's wife; The Lion's Honey which narrates the Biblical story of Samson and Delilah from the point-of-view of Samson's savaged lock; The Missing Days of E.A.P. which imagines itself into the interstices of Poe's mysterious death; The Unnaming, a metafictional reversal of the Edenic myth; and The Devil in Decline in which a defanged Satan speaks for himself. Aesthetically, the tales range from the social-realistic to cross-genre, from the comic to the somber, from the credible to the fully fantastic of I Married Yeti, from naturalist to fabulist - making every story a surprise.

Traveling between the poles of Ohio and Vermont, childhood and motherhood, the author writes of a peripatetic family whose oddities make the quirks of a Thurber household seem downright subdued; and of a thirteen-year-old son as an unlikely companion through the torments of middle-aged dating.