Alice Clark has been trying to avoid an acute state of "not-knowing" about what's happened and what's happening. Whatever happened has much to do with why three of her friends died early and badly and she did not. Alice is a mess, and her story is a mess too--digressive, disheveled, and wild. She takes us across the United States in an overdue effort to find out what part she's played, or failed to, in her own life. Along the way she revisits her memories and meets a variety of "Cheshire cats," who in scary, rude, and seductive ways help her to keep going and find things out... or not.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Melissa Malouf
EAN: 9781628970449
COUNTRY: United States
PAGES: 275
WEIGHT: 332 g
HEIGHT: 215 mm
PUBLISHED BY: Dalkey Archive Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-05-22
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GENRE: FICTION / Literary
WIDTH: 141 mm
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Book Themes:
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Pushcart Prize-winner Melissa Malouf is the author of a collection of short stories, "No Guarantees," and a novel, "It Had to Be You: The Joan and Ernest Story." Malouf earned her PhD at the University of California at Irvine. She teaches literature and creative writing at Duke University.