What Keeps Me Here
Stories
by Rebecca Brown
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What Keeps Me Here is a collection of stories about relationships - between childhood friends, between lovers, between the warring parts of the self. In "The Aqua Series," a woman is transformed from a creator of paintings to a creation of her paintings. "A Mark" examines the effect of a forgotten past on a pair of lovers. "Someone Else" is a monologue in the voice of someone inhabited by a foreign spirit. The narrator of "A Severing" tries to repair the physical damage of a failed relationship.
The prose moves between stark realism and the shimmering surrealism of fairy tales or dreams to create an emotional landscape and vision of life that is as true, startling, and original as that of any writer today. Written with the same spare beauty and precision that have brought Brown's fiction such acclaim, What Keeps Me Here is a haunting and unforgettable book.
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What Keeps Me Here: Stories
September 1, 1996, HarperCollins
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0060174404 9780060174408
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For more than a decade Rebecca Brown has been one of the best-kept secrets in fiction writing. Her first four novels garnered praise among other writers, and last year her Gifts of the Body proved to a wide-readership that she was one of the finest stylists working today. Her prose is plain-spoken and effective, but carries a wallop; her newest book, What Keeps Me Here, a collection of stories, amazes us with its purity and emotional resonance. Whether she is writing about the relationship of a woman to her art, or the violence that haunts relationships, Brown moves and speaks through her characters like light through a window, or grace through a soul.
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