| Trick Is to Keep Breathing Available Again Edition Contributor(s): Galloway, Janice (Author) |
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ISBN: 1564780813 ISBN-13: 9781564780812 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2015 Annotation: This inventive first novel explores the widespread problem of female depression. A 27-year-old drama teacher named Joy Stone is losing her grip on the world. The problems of everyday living accumulate and begin to torture the narrator, who blames her problems not on her work or on the accidental death of her illict lover, but on herself. She reads horoscopes, plucks hairs, holds conversations inside and outside herself. A terrible memory tries to unfold but is resisted. Family and friends take on monstrous or pitiful guises; food threatens to become a major character. Clutching at the wrong things, the trick is to find those that let life go on. As things seen, things bought, and things said become obsessions, so the author conjures up the homely or horrifying world of litter in which the reader, like the heroine, lives. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 93021201 |
| Series: Scottish Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.57" W x 8.49" (0.71 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Janice Galloway's inventive first novel is about the breakdown of a 27-year-old drama teacher named Joy Stone. The problems of everyday living accumulate and begin to torture Joy, who blames her problems not on her work or on the accidental drowning of her illicit lover, but on herself. While painful and deeply serious, this is a novel of great warmth and energy: it's the wit and irony found in moments of despair that prove to be Joy's salvation. First published by Polygon in 1989 and Dalkey Archive Press in 1994, now available again. |