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The Incurables (Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction) - Softcover

Book 1 of 6: Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction

Brazaitis, Mark

 
9780268022310: The Incurables (Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0268022313 ISBN 13: 9780268022310
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012

Synopsis

In his latest collection of literary fiction, Mark Brazaitis evokes with sympathy, insight, and humor the lives of characters in a small Ohio town. The ten short stories of The Incurables limn the mental landscape of people facing conditions they believe are insolvable, from the oppressive horrors of mental illness to the beguiling and baffling complexities of romantic and familial love.

In the book’s opening story, “The Bridge,” a new sheriff must confront a suicide epidemic as well as his own deteriorating mental health. In “Classmates,” a man sets off to visit the wife of a classmate who has killed himself. Is he hoping to write a story about his classmate or to observe the aftermath of what his own suicide attempt, if successful, would have been like? In the title story, a down-on-his-luck porn actor returns to his hometown and winds up in the mental health ward of the local hospital, where he meets a captivating woman. Other stories in the collection include “A Map of the Forbidden,” about a straight-laced man who is tempted to cheat on his wife after his adulterous father dies, and “The Boy behind the Tree,” about a problematic father-son relationship made more so by the arrival on the scene of a young man the son’s age. In “I Return,” a father narrates a story from the afterlife, discovering as he does so that he is not as indispensable to his family as he had believed.

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About the Author

Mark Brazaitis is the author of The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award; An American Affair: Stories, winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize from Texas Review Press; a novel, Steal My Heart; and a collection of poetry, The Other Language. Brazaitis's short stories have been cited in the Pushcart Prize annual and Best American Short Stories volumes. He is the director of the Creative Writing Program at West Virginia University.

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Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0268022313
ISBN 13 
9780268022310
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
244