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Catalogue #s: 192
ISBN: 1-885942-19-2 cloth $23.95
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Description
A startlingly edgy, seductive debut collection of short
stores, travels from New York to Northern California, Mexico, Los Angeles
and Paris, dropping us dead center into the lives of those whose extreme
behavior has led them to the threshold of significant transition.
Among the many intriguing, unique
individuals, there is Marty wrestling with sobriety and his unspeakable
obsession; Gita trying to conduct the love triangle she orchestrated; the
frustrated lover, Tim, attempting to wedge himself between his girlfriend
and her brother; and the surf chick, Magda, tightrope-walking in her
circus of drugs, opportunistic men and the waves of Baja California.
Finely crafted and painstakingly wrought,
each of these 12 stories is a stunningly powerful, dynamic look into lives
at the breaking point.
Quotes
"Lisa Teasley's formidable
storytelling brings to mind the verbal and visual juggernauts of a Zora
Neale Hurston or a Quentin Tarantino, the dark righteous anger of the
Beats, and the heavy metallic blues of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin."
—Kevin Powell
Author's
Bio
Lisa Teasley is a native of Los Angeles,
California where she currently lives. Her fiction has appeared in
numerous anthologies and publications such as Step Into a World: A
Global Anthology of the New Black Literature, Brown Sugar and Between
C & D. She won the May Merrill Miller and the Amaranth
Review awards for fiction. This is her first collection.
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