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Heart Failure, 1983
Goodman, Ivy, 1953-
Adams, Alice, 1926-1999
1983
University of Iowa Press
Iowa City, Iowa
These 15 stories meet existence head on through detached narration that has the quality of a feverish dream. The chilling psyche tells a story where there seems to be no story. Even the victim remains dispassionate and lets the reader infer causes and measure threats. In unvarnished, linear prose stripped of sentimentality, Goodman casts the shape of inarticulate emotion. Yet at the heart of her stories about the foolish, the indifferent, and the vicious, between painful connections and violations, there is regenerating laughter or an inexpressible trace of something once whole and beautiful. Beneath Goodman's every absence, there is a compelling, disturbing presence.
Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction: 1983 Judge: Alice Adams
English
The Iowa Short Fiction Award & John Simmons Short Fiction Award
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Iowa Short Fiction Award
139 pages
Digitized.
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