Machine by Susan Steinberg

Machine by Susan Steinberg

A haunting story of guilt and blame in the wake of a drowning, the first novel by the author ofSpectacle

Susan Steinberg's first novel,Machine, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book,Spectacle, gained her a rapturous following.Machine revolves around a group of teenagers--both locals and wealthy out-of-towners--during a single summer at the shore. Steinberg captures the pressures and demands of this world in a voice that effortlessly slides from collective to singular, as one girl recounts a night on which another girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate, she pieces together the details of this tragedy, as well as the breakdown of her own family, and learns that no one, not even she, is blameless.

A daring stylist, Steinberg contrasts semicolon-studded sentences with short lines that race down the page. This restless approach gains focus and power through a sharply drawn narrative that ferociously interrogates gender, class, privilege, and the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma.Machine is the kind of novel--relentless and bold--that only Susan Steinberg could have written.

Steinberg, Susan: - Susan Steinberg is the author of the short-story collections Hydroplane and The End of Free Love. She was the 2010 United States Artists Ziporyn Fellow in Literature. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney's, Conjunctions, The Gettysburg Review, American Short Fiction, Boulevard, and The Massachusetts Review, and she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. She has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, the Wurlitzer Foundation, the Blue Mountain Center, Yaddo, and New York University. She has a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She teaches at the University of San Francisco.

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ISBN 13	9781555978471
ISBN 10	1555978479
Title	Machine
Author	Susan Steinberg
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Graywolf Press
Year published	2019-08-20
Number of pages	144
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.