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PublisherGraywolf Press

ISBN-101555973248

ISBN-139781555973247

eBay Product ID (ePID)1868093

Product Key Features

Book TitleCelebrities in Disgrace : Novella and Stories

Number of Pages186 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Popular Culture

GenreSocial Science, Fiction

AuthorElizabeth Searle

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-105091

Reviews"These stories come to us wrapped in narrative forms that simply obey no rules but their own: a single glance exploding fractally into many lives. Kids, do not try this at home." -- Christopher Tilghman "How well Elizabeth Searle knows her vivid characters and how cunningly she depicts their weird and wonderful lives. Celebrities in Disgrace is a sparkling collection by a writer with a unique and an utterly contemporary sensibility." -- Margot Livesey "In clipped, poetic language, Searle skillfully unwinds a psychosexual narrative." -- New York Times Book Review on A Four-Sided Bed "Her elegant prose and anythingbut-PC gender play are pleasing to the mind and to the loins." -- Boston Phoenix on A Four-Sided Bed "Bending gender and conventional notions about love and marriage, Searle's bold, beautiful book reaches right past the sensationalism of a love triangle to offer us an intense and moving portrait of the different ways people can connect." -- Booklist on A Four-Sided Bed "A powerful, unsettling first novel. . . . A bright, distinctive, haunting debut." -- Kirkus Reviews on A Four-Sided Bed, These stories come to us wrapped in narrative forms that simply obey no rules but their own: a single glance exploding fractally into many lives. Kids, do not try this at home., How well Elizabeth Searle knows her vivid characters and how cunningly she depicts their weird and wonderful lives. Celebrities in Disgrace is a sparkling collection by a writer with a unique and an utterly contemporary sensibility., "These stories come to us wrapped in narrative forms that simply obey no rules but their own: a single glance exploding fractally into many lives. Kids, do not try this at home."--Christopher Tilghman "How well Elizabeth Searle knows her vivid characters and how cunningly she depicts their weird and wonderful lives.Celebrities in Disgraceis a sparkling collection by a writer with a unique and an utterly contemporary sensibility."--Margot Livesey Praise for her novel,A Four-Sided Bed: "In clipped, poetic language, Searle skillfully unwinds a psychosexual narrative."--New York Times Book Review "Her elegant prose and anythingbut-PC gender play are pleasing to the mind and to the loins."--Boston Phoenix "Bending gender and conventional notions about love and marriage, Searle's bold, beautiful book reaches right past the sensationalism of a love triangle to offer us an intense and moving portrait of the different ways people can connect."--Booklist "A powerful, unsettling first novel. . . . A bright, distinctive, haunting debut."--Kirkus Reviews, "These stories come to us wrapped in narrative forms that simply obey no rules but their own: a single glance exploding fractally into many lives. Kids, do not try this at home."--Christopher Tilghman "How well Elizabeth Searle knows her vivid characters and how cunningly she depicts their weird and wonderful lives. Celebrities in Disgrace is a sparkling collection by a writer with a unique and an utterly contemporary sensibility."--Margot Livesey Praise for her novel, A Four-Sided Bed : "In clipped, poetic language, Searle skillfully unwinds a psychosexual narrative."-- New York Times Book Review "Her elegant prose and anythingbut-PC gender play are pleasing to the mind and to the loins."-- Boston Phoenix "Bending gender and conventional notions about love and marriage, Searle's bold, beautiful book reaches right past the sensationalism of a love triangle to offer us an intense and moving portrait of the different ways people can connect."-- Booklist "A powerful, unsettling first novel. . . . A bright, distinctive, haunting debut."-- Kirkus Reviews, Bending gender and conventional notions about love and marriage, Searle's bold, beautiful book reaches right past the sensationalism of a love triangle to offer us an intense and moving portrait of the different ways people can connect.

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisInspired by a society obsessed with celebrities, Searle explores the glittery-dark underworld of 'hopefuls,' those who have been given the slightest hint of success--or even imagined success--and who are hungry for an audience, of any size. Ranging from a woman's relentless pursuit to be an actress despite her tendency to faint onstage, to a disintegrating family who comes together if only to watch the imaginary lives in a soap opera, the stories in Celebrities in Disgrace capture the thrill and lure of fame and our insatiable need for it., Inspired by a society obsessed with celebrities, Searle explores the glittery-dark underworld of 'hopefuls, ' those who have been given the slightest hint of success--or even imagined success--and who are hungry for an audience, of any size. Ranging from a woman's relentless pursuit to be an actress despite her tendency to faint onstage, to a disintegrating family who comes together if only to watch the imaginary lives in a soap opera, the stories in Celebrities in Disgrace capture the thrill and lure of fame and our insatiable need for it.

LC Classification NumberPS3569.E1766C45 2001