Download PDF by Maura Stanton: Cities in the Sea (Michigan Literary Fiction Awards)

By Maura Stanton

ISBN-10: 047211364X

ISBN-13: 9780472113644

In towns within the Sea, Maura Stanton faucets into the mysterious strength of the fairy story, with its marvelous photographs and magical narrative styles. Her tales blur the limits among fairy story and verité, and touch upon the artwork of storytelling. more than a few characters -- from a enterprise guy to a pianist, from a county coroner to a ironmongery shop clerk, from a Greek immigrant to a Danish artist -- come to find that the previous is a ruined state, misplaced endlessly, yet nonetheless a spot to go to in want, dream, and reminiscence. all through her tales, Stanton makes an attempt to wrest a deeper trend, packed with humor and beauty, out of the nerve-racking occasions of up to date life.

Maura Stanton's past books comprise the unconventional Molly Companion and the tale collections The state I Come From and Do now not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling. Stanton is a recipient of the Yale sequence of more youthful Poets award and a two-time winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. She teaches within the M.F.A. software at Indiana University.

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