Something in My Eye

by Lee, Michael Jeffrey; Prose, Francine

• ISBN13: 9781936747054
• ISBN10: 1936747057
• Edition: Original
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-31
• Publisher: Sarabande Books

Summary

"I was drawn to Michael Jeffrey Lee's line-up of loners and drifters, imperiled children, and haunted psychos neither because I want to hang out with these bad boys, nor because I plan to cross the street when I see them coming, but because the invitation to inhabit their minds, to see the world through their eyes, and to watch their often unsettling stories play out in space and time enables Lee to do all sorts of extremely interesting things with consciousness and language."--Francine Prose, judge for the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction These are hyper-stylized fables of exiles--under bridges, holed up in bars before the hurricane hits, and cast among the uncomprehending innocent. Linking back to an eighteenth century grammar of predestination and forward to a twenty-first century resignation to forces beyond our understanding, Something in My Eyemakes visible those we'd rather not see, according them all the tenderness the world withholds. Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Michael Jeffrey Leelives in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he earns his living as a typist, waiter, and nightclub singer. A frequent contributor to Conjunctions,he is also an associate fiction editor at the New Orleans Review. He is at work on a novel.