Synopsis
Fiction. Operating somewhere between fiction and poetry, biography and theory, the stories in ATTEMPTS AT A LIFE do what lively stories do best, creating worlds of possibility, worlds filled with surprises. Like the "experiments in found movement" one character conducts (in "Everybody's Autobiography"), Dutton's stories find movement wherever they turn, each sentence a small explosion of images and anthems and odd juxtapositions. This is writing in which the imagination (both writer's and reader's) is capable of producing almost anything at any moment, from a shiny penny to an alien metropolis, a burning village to a bright green bird. "Danielle Dutton's stories remind me of those alluring puzzles where the pool is overflowing and emptying at the same time. Dutton's answer? That the self is a rush of the languages of storytelling and moments of helpless intimacy"--Robert Gluck.
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About the Author
Danielle Dutton was born in Visalia, California in 1975. She is the author of a novel, S P R A W L (forthcoming from Clear Cut Press), and her work has appeared in many journals including NOON, 3rd bed, Denver Quarterly, and Fence. She lives with her husband in Colorado, where she is completing a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver.
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