{"product_id":"sleeping-mask-fictions-9781942658184","title":"Sleeping Mask: Fictions","description":"\"LaSalle's  stories] transcend their particulars to show people with dreams, dilemmas, and disappointments that will move any reader.\" --\u003cb\u003eJhumpa Lahiri, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Haunting and evocative. . . . LaSalle's prose is lyrical, at times rhapsodic, and his characters memorable.\" --\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe twelve stories of \u003ci\u003eSleeping Mask\u003c\/i\u003e, written in propulsive, fluid prose, introduce readers to remarkable characters. They include a child soldier sent to raid a girls' boarding school, a Virginia Woolf scholar surviving cancer, a desperate writer living under fascism in a futuristic Latin America, the spirits of recently deceased college students on a tour of the Mus e d'Orsay in Paris, and a middle-aged man transported back to his childhood, where he is led out to sea by his mother's ghost. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLaSalle's tantalizing \"fictions\" are evocative of many of the great innovators of postmodern literature, from Borges to Nabokov, while charting a path entirely their own. Through all of their stylistic pyrotechnics these stories never forsake rich characterization and plotting to probe the deepest parts of the contemporary human condition, such as the nature of erotic desire, the legacy of art and artistry, the power of grief and fear, and the horror of war and violence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter LaSalle\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books of fiction, including the story collections \u003ci\u003eTell Borges If You See Him\u003c\/i\u003e, recipient of he Flannery O'Connor Award, and \u003ci\u003eWhat I Found Out About Her\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he is a member of the creative writing faculty at the University of Texas, and Narragansett, in his native Rhode Island.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bellevue Literary Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781942658184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/26\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2016 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2016 pg. 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2016 pg. 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/27\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Peter Lasalle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41309684793525,"sku":"9781942658184","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_21571dcc-83fc-41ed-9435-f89417c708d9.jpg?v=1635831111","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sleeping-mask-fictions-9781942658184","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}