Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 194 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. "A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction. Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer of rare insight into the jagged boundaries between pain and survival. Her characters are scarred by the unchecked hungers of others and themselves, yet determined to find salvation within lives that can feel beyond their control. In novels such as The Small Backs of Children and The Book of Joan, she has captivated readers with stories of visceral power. Now, in Verge, she offers a shard-sharp mosaic portrait of human resilience on the margins. The landscape of Verge is peopled with characters who are innocent and imperfect, wise and endangered: an eight-year-old black-market medical courier, a restless lover haunted by memories of his mother, a teenage girl gazing out her attic window at a nearby prison, all of them wounded but grasping toward transcendence. Clear-eyed yet inspiring, Verge challenges us with moments of uncomfortable truth, even as it urges us to place our faith not in the flimsy guardrails of society but in the memories held--and told--by our own individual bodies."--Publisher description.

Uniform title

1. Short stories. Selections

Alternative title

1. Short stories.

Subject

1. Anger
2. Lust
3. Drug traffic
4. Bullying
5. Self-mutilation
6. Women
7. Anger > Fiction
8. Lust > Fiction
9. Drug traffic > Fiction
10. Bullying > Fiction
11. Self-mutilation > Fiction
12. Women > Fiction
13. Short stories
14. FICTION / Literary
15. FICTION / Women
16. FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
17. Fiction

Genre/Form

1. Fiction.
2. Short stories.

Contents

1. The pull -- The organ runner -- Street walker -- The garden of earthly delights -- A woman object (exploding) -- Cosmos -- Second language -- A woman signifying -- The eleventh commandment -- Drive through -- Cusp -- A woman refusing -- Shooting -- A woman apologizing -- Mechanics -- Second coming -- Beatings -- A woman going out -- How to lose an I -- Two girls.

Call number

1. JFD 20-3564

Author

1. Yuknavitch, Lidia, author.

Title

1. Verge : stories / Lidia Yuknavitch.

Publisher

1. New York : Riverhead Books, 2020.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Other form:

1. Online version: Yuknavitch, Lidia. Verge New York : Riverhead Books, 2020 9780525534891 (DLC) 2019000954

LCCN

1. 2018058037

Other standard identifier

1. 40029794534

ISBN

1. 9780525534877 (hardcover)
2. 0525534873
3. 9780525534891 (ebook)

Research call number

1. JFD 20-3564