Extremities

by Koja, Kathe

• ISBN13: 9781568581507
• ISBN10: 1568581505
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-05
• Publisher: Running Pr Book Pub

Summary

In the hypnotic, psychological landscape of Extremities, people pushed to the limits of endurance enter extreme states of mind and being. These stories shine an eerie light on the netherworld of artistic exploration and insanity; they probe obsession and vengeance and wander along the intersecting paths of the living and the dead. Frequently Koja's characters are betrayed by imagination - artists enslaved by their muses, women dominated by fantasy lovers, ordinary men bewitched by inner voices or inexplicably endowed with powers they cannot control. Koja's language is gorgeously descriptive: every sense is exquisitely evoked. These stories shiver with her simmering intensity.

Table of Contents

Arrangement for Invisible Voices	1	(10)
The Neglected Garden	11	(10)
Bird Superior	21	(14)
Illusions in Relief	35	(12)
Reckoning	47	(26)
The Company of Storms	73	(10)
Teratisms	83	(12)
Angles in Love	95	(10)
Waking the Prince	105	(12)
Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard	117	(8)
Lady Lazarus	125	(8)
The Disquieting Muse	133	(16)
Queen of Angles	149	(16)
Jubilee	165	(8)
Pas de Deux	173	(20)
Bondage	193