Love Is No Small Thing by Meghan Kenny

Love Is No Small Thing by Meghan Kenny

Meghan Kenny's debut collection, Love Is No Small Thing, gives readers an assembly of keenly drawn characters each navigating the world looking for an understanding of love in its many forms and complexities, be it romantic, parental, elusive, or eternal. A father may teach his teenage son ""Hearts break easy,"" but as Kenny's characters discover, knowing an important truth about love is no substitute for experiencing it. In the title story, a woman learns of her boyfriend's infidelity on Halloween night and contemplates lost years, concealments, and the difficulty of walking away. An Idaho cameraman and his cross-dressing, sky-diving son try to find common ground in ""All These Lovely Boys."" A first date at the Corkscrew Swamp Bird Sanctuary becomes something else altogether in ""Sanctuary,"" and in ""Heartbreak Hotel,"" a father swaps stories of disappointments and losses with his daughter and an unwanted passenger on a cross-country road trip. Throughout this collection, Kenny's characters try to bridge the gap between what they expected of their lives and what they have received. They struggle to understand their own identities and the value of the relationships they have or want, with results that are funny and poignant in equal measure. Employing minimalist language and character-driven storytelling, Meghan Kenny grapples with love in all its messiness and uncertainty, revealing vital truths about the vagaries of the human heart and establishing Kenny as a vibrant new voice in the American literary landscape.

Meghan Kenny's fiction has won the Iowa Review Fiction Award and appeared in publications including The Kenyon Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Gettysburg Review, Hobart, Plieades and elsewhere. She has been awarded a Peter Taylor Fellowship, a Tickner Writing Fellowship, and scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences. She lives in Pennsylvania.

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ISBN 13	9780807166260
ISBN 10	080716626X
Titel	Love Is No Small Thing
Autor	Meghan Kenny
Serie	Yellow Shoe Fiction
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Louisiana State University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2017-03-30
Seitenanzahl	160
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.