Bright Object of Desire
Adams, Michele In this sparkling collection of stories drawn from the surreal edge of life, playful irony vies with more poignant evocations of solitude, mortality, and the dawn of sexual awareness - all bodied forth in a language that is precise, elegant, and immediate. Storytellers are liars, but as Picasso said, "art is the lie that tells the truth, ” and deceit is a motif here: lies of omission or commission, in words or in deeds, to gain love or repel i...