The Wave and Other Stories

by Caren Gussoff

"Gussoff has a good eye for detail...A tautly written, haunting tale of loneliness, alienation, and lost hopes and dreams."-- Kirkus Reviews "Deals insightfully and unsentimentally with the issues the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852424591
• ISBN13: 9781852424596
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Documents Caren Gussof as a gifted writer

The Wave And Other Stories is an anthology of a novella (The Wave) and ten original short stories by Caren Gussof about characters marginalized, disempowered, and forced to fight back to understand, protect, or avenge themselves. Dark, streetwise, and haunting in its brief yet impressionable vignettes. The short stories include Stealing Purses; Surface Reading; Spark; Astronaut; Unpretty; Bruce Lee; The Deepest Dive; Djinni; Love Story; and Sight Unseen. The Wave And Other Stories clearly documents Caren Gussof as a gifted writer who combines imagination and originality with insight and empathy.