Burst (eBook)

A Novel

Mary Otis (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
238 Seiten
Zibby Publishing (Verlag)
979-8-9862418-4-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates PrizeWinner, Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver Medal - Literary FictionFeatured on PBS NewsHourNamed by Good Morning America, New York Post, and Los Angeles Daily News as one of the Best Books of Spring 2023A deeply moving novel about becoming-and unbecoming-our mothers, absorbing the past, and bursting into our own futures. Told from interwoven perspectives with lyrical prose, this poignant story explores addiction, artistic ambition, and the complex relationship between Viva and her mother Charlotte.

Autor

Mary Otis is the author of the short story collection Yes, Yes, Cherries. Her fiction, essays, and poetry have been published in Best New American Voices, Electric Literature, Tin House, Zyzzyva, McSweeney’s, Bennington Review, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and many other literary journals and anthologies. She has taught fiction at UCLA and was a founding professor in the UC Riverside Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program. Originally from the Boston area, Mary lives in Los Angeles. www.maryotis.com

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.4.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: addiction • addictive personality • Alcohol • alcoholic • alcoholism • art class • Artistic • Arts • Audition • Ballet • Beach • betrayal • Bond • Burst • Cairo • Camper • Campground • Cape Cod • career in performing • Carnival • Charlotte • Classes • Coming of Age • complex family issues • Complicated • Connection • conservatory • Dance • dancer • Dancing • Daughter • Death • debut novel • deciding your future • Dialogue • Dream • Drinking • drinking problem • Driving • EB • eighties • facing the past • Family • Fender • fiction stories about women • Growing Up • Highway • Hippies • Hollywood • Hotel • Kate • literary fiction • Los Angeles • Love • Marcus • Mary • Mary Otis • Memory • mistakes • Modern Dance • MONEY • mother • Mother Daughter relationship • Neglect • nightclub • nineties • Nomad • Nomadic • Novel • NYC • ocean • Otis • parental conflict • PAST • PB • PBK • photographer • Physical • present • Pressure • private academy • Recitals • relationships • Rigor • San Diego • Seventies • Sixties • Southern California • spanning years • suburbs • Talent • Teenager • Theater • Tragedy • transcendence • troubled • Van • VIVA • women‚Äôs fiction • Yes, Yes, Cherries
• ISBN-13: 979-8-9862418-4-5 / 9798986241845