In The Year Of Long Division: Stories
of Dawn Raffel (Goodreads Author)
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Dawn Raffel's debut delivers us to the wild spaces of a youth in the Midwest and to the blank terrors of the heart. There is a cold wind blowing through these stories, whose sentences come to us as a rebuke to anything felt. In her flight from sentiment, Raffel masterfully reifies the new will to absence that marks the moral and emotional bearing of her generation. The result is not just an acknowledgment of all our long divisions - the divide between impulse and the means to apprehend it, between desire and entrapment - but of the final sweet concession that we must each of us make to the futility of even the smallest mending. In the Year of Long Division gives us the triumph of craft over the obstinance of expression and the installation of a writer certain to be cited in the continuing reinvention of the American short story.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 117 pages
- Publisher Knopf
- Publication Date January 31st 1995
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780679415817
- Edition Not informed
- Category Poetry & Essays
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