Circling the Drain: Stories

by Davis, Amanda

• ISBN13: 9780688167806
• ISBN10: 0688167802
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-02
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

          Enter into the worlds of fifteen young women who, despite their vastly different circumstances, seem to negotiate an eerily similar and unavoidably dangerous emotional terrain. With a visceral bite or a surreal edge, each electrically charged story in Circling the Drain presents women trying to understand the nature of loss--of leaving or being left--and discovering that in the throes of feverish conflict, things are rarely what they seem. By turns dark and lyrical, ferocious and playful, these stories are precise, startling, and undeniably original. Reading them is a cathartic, mesmerizing literary experience.

Table of Contents

Prints	1	(6)
Red Lights Like Laughter	7	(12)
Fat Ladies Floated in the Sky Like Balloons	19	(8)
Testimony	27	(26)
Chase	53	(10)
Circling the Drain	63	(18)
True Story	81	(8)
Fairy Tale	89	(4)
Sticks and Stones	93	(18)
Ending Things	111	(8)
Spice	119	(10)
The Visit	129	(26)
Crash	155	(8)
The Very Moment They're About	163	(8)
Faith or Tips for the Successful Young Lady	171