Bibliograph

Terrarium, new and selected stories, Valerie Trueblood

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Terrarium, new and selected stories, Valerie Trueblood

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Terrarium

Responsibility statement

Valerie Trueblood

Sub title

new and selected stories

Summary

"The new stories collected within Terrarium represent an exciting direction for the author: a condensing of narrative and, in some cases, a departure from it into another state of mind. It's hard to describe any of Trueblood's stories as "typical." She does not write about people from a single class, or caste, or geographical area. She has not written a single story emblematic of her work. She does not write stories fantastical or eccentric. Ordinary life, her stories may be saying, is fantastical enough. She is more like Babel than Chekhov. In all her writing, it's clear that Trueblood believes that the short story can carry both the lightest and heaviest of loads. Terrarium highlights the achievement of simply living, the stories within often unresolved but in a state of continuation, expansion. Trueblood's stories aren?́?t merely "about" their subjects, they?́?re inside them."--Dust jacket

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