Clare Beams: We Show What We Have Learned: And Other Stories
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Author: Clare Beams
Number of Pages: 178 pages
Published Date: 25 Oct 2016
Publisher: Lookout Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781940596143
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"Joyce Carol Oates calls debut author Clare Beams "wickedly sharp-eyed, wholly unpredictable . . . a female/feminist voice for the twenty-first century." The literary, historic, and fantastic collide in these wise and exquisitely unsettling stories. From bewildering assemblies in school auditoriums to the murky waters of a Depression-era health resort, Beams's landscapes are tinged with otherworldliness, and her characters' desires stretch the limits of reality. Ingénues at a boarding school bind themselves to their headmaster's vision of perfection; a nineteenth-century landscape architect embarks on his first major project, but finds the terrain of class and power intractable; a bride glimpses her husband's past when she wears his World War II parachute as a gown; and a teacher comes undone in front of her astonished fifth graders. As they capture the strangeness of being human, the stories in We Show What We Have Learned reveal Clare Beams's rare and capacious imaginationand yet they are grounded in emotional complexity, illuminating the ways we attempt to transform ourselves, our surroundings, and each other."