Sleeping Mask by Peter Lasalle
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Overview: The twelve stories of Sleeping Mask, written in propulsive, fluid prose, introduce readers to remarkable characters. They include a child soldier sent to raid a girls’ boarding school, a Virginia Woolf scholar surviving cancer, a desperate writer living under fascism in a futuristic Latin America, the spirits of recently deceased college students on a tour of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and a middle-aged man transported back to his childhood, where he is led out to sea by his mother’s ghost.
LaSalle’s tantalizing “fictions” are evocative of many of the great innovators of postmodern literature, from Borges to Nabokov, while charting a path entirely their own. Through all of their stylistic pyrotechnics these stories never forsake rich characterization and plotting to probe the deepest parts of the contemporary human condition, such as the nature of erotic desire, the legacy of art and artistry, the power of grief and fear, and the horror of war and violence.
Genre: Fiction, General, Short-stories
Contents
Sleeping Mask
Boys: A New African Fable
E.A.P: A Note
A Day in the Life of the Illness
The Flight
Lunch Across the Bridge
The Absent Painter
Southern Majestic Zone
A Short Manual of Mirrors
Found Fragment from the Report on the Cadaver Dogs of Northern Maine, 1962
What Can’t Not Happen
A Late Afternoon Swim
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