eightball

By Elizabeth Geoghegan

Book Overview

Eightball strikes hard. Fueled by an abiding sense of loss, these eight stories take you on a journey over the exploded fault lines of intimacy, unfolding across cities and continents. Whether hitchhiking the Italian Veneto, trekking through a pitch-black Balinese rice field, or queuing for drinks in a crowded Seattle bar, Geoghegan sets her characters adrift in a world that stakes its claim to the enigmatic terrain of desire.

This collection of darkly comic, occasionally violent, tales is anchored by the eponymous "eightball," a coming of age novella about a sister and brother guided by the inertia of recklessness and self-destruction. A prot g of the late Lucia Berlin, Elizabeth Geoghegan writes lyric, place-driven prose laced with edgy realism and wry wit.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193965095X
• ISBN13: 9781939650955
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Santa Fe Writer's Project
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"