Name: Cover Before Striking (en Inglés)
SKU: 51915218
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Author: Priscila Uppal
ISBN: 9781459729520

portada Cover Before Striking (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Dundurn

Autor

Priscila Uppal

Año

2015

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

232

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781459729520

N° edición

Categorías

Ficción: general y literaria

Cover Before Striking (en Inglés)

Priscila Uppal (Autor) · Dundurn · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Cover Before Striking (en Inglés)"

The most common phrase in print is "cover before striking," a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal's characters in Cover Before Striking are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. The pyromaniac at the heart of the title story — winner of the Gloria Vanderbilt Short Fiction Prize — desperately uses fire to reconnect with lost lovers and family members. In "Vertigo," an injured Olympic athlete becomes a research guinea pig in a surreal scientific experiment. In "The Boy Next Door," a teenager recounts how her mother took her and fled Canada for Brazil, along with the local Catholic priest. Implacable and just a little unhinged, the stories of Cover Before Striking each move toward that moment of contact when the sparks begin to fly, when destruction and beauty seem to blur together. With this collection, Priscila Uppal offers the literary equivalent of playing with fire.