Mark Mayer
Aerialists
Stories
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Mark Mayer writes with a humorous, wistful elegance. His stories are singular, as detached and intimate as dreaming. --Marilynne RobinsonWelcome to the sublime circus of Mark Mayer's Michener-Copernicus-winning debut, Aerialists, a fiercely inventive collection of nine stories in which classic carnival characters become ordinary misfits seeking grandeur in a lonely world. Under the luminous tent of Mayer's prose, we see P.T. Barnum's caravan remade: A young misogynist finds a confidante in a cable-TV strongwoman. A realtor for the one percent invokes his inner murder clown. A skin-and-bones mathematician and his bearded wife plot revolution.…
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Mark Mayer writes with a humorous, wistful elegance. His stories are singular, as detached and intimate as dreaming. --Marilynne RobinsonWelcome to the sublime circus of Mark Mayer's Michener-Copernicus-winning debut, Aerialists, a fiercely inventive collection of nine stories in which classic carnival characters become ordinary misfits seeking grandeur in a lonely world. Under the luminous tent of Mayer's prose, we see P.T. Barnum's caravan remade: A young misogynist finds a confidante in a cable-TV strongwoman. A realtor for the one percent invokes his inner murder clown. A skin-and-bones mathematician and his bearded wife plot revolution. A friendless peach farmer holds a funeral for a beloved elephant. And a model-train hobbyist prepares to throw his miniature world in the trash. The circus has always been a collection of American exaggerations-the bold, the beautiful, the freakish, the big. Aerialists finds these myths living in the everyday. Mayer's deftly drawn characters illuminate these small-scale spectaculars, and their attempted acts of daring and feats of strength are rendered with humor, generosity, and uncommon grace.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-63557-216-2
- EAN: 9781635572162
- Produktnummer: 29572686
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: B&W Illustrations throughout
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Mark Mayer's stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, Kenyon Review, Guernica, Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, and The Best American Mystery Stories. Mayer has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a PhD from the University of Denver. He spent two years at Cornell College's Center for the Literary Arts as the Robert P. Dana Emerging Writer-in-Residence. He lives in Maine and teaches at Colby College. Aerialists is his first collection.
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