A Brief History of Camouflage

by Frank, Thaisa

• ISBN13: 9780876858578
• ISBN10: 0876858574
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-12-01
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Pr

Summary

"In the spell-like, poetic fiction of Thaisa Frank, the fantastic is never far from the ordinary: her characters glimpse other worlds in their rear-view mirrors, receive postcards from long-dead friends, and take lovers who literally glow in the dark, their mustaches filaments, their pubic hair incandescent. Call it 'domestic magical realism, 'call it the work of a West Coast I.B.Singer, it's fiction that 'packs an emotional punch that will leave the reader gasping.'"¿San Francisco Chronicle

Table of Contents

I. A BRIEF HISTORY OF CAMOUFLAGE
Stories we Began to Tell	11	(6)
Night Sounds	17	(10)
The Mole	27	(10)
The Last Lady who Loved Howard Hughes	37	(4)
Silence	41	(8)
The New Thieves	49	(2)
Using the Car for Business	51	(8)
Work and Time	59	(12)
The Sexual Geography of Capital Cities	71	(6)
The Second Husband	77	(8)
Hyperventilation	85	(8)
Poland	93	(4)
Landing Strip	97	(4)
Buying a Rug in Esquares	101	(10)
Zelda	111	(8)
Postcards	119	(4)
Animal Skins	123	(4)
Snow	127	(10)
A Gift of Paper	137