BURN
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.57 (594 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0971084688 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Crafted with echoes of the Adam and Eve myth, set amidst the sexual and political repression of the 1950s, BURN revisits familiar narratives of McCarthyism, Jewish socialism, and pedophilia, but is told from the rarely heard perspective of a menopausal immigrant woman. Jennifer Natalya Fink has received the Dana Award In the Novel, STORY Magazine's Short Fiction Award, The Georgetown Review's Fiction Award, and the Billy Heekin Foundation Award.. Fiction
I would give this 6 stars if I could! This is easily the best work of literature I have read in years.And Fink tells her "fable for the Bush/Rumsfeld era" through one of the most fascinatingly unreliable narrators I have ever encountered: Mrs. Sylvia Edelman.Sylvie, despite or because of all the asides, is some storyteller. And she is going through menopause and late-night hot- and cold-flashes and possible hallucinations and bags of red licorice as she reg. A Customer said I would give this 6 stars if I could!. A family member gave me Ann Coulter's Treason as a gag gift for my birthday (I'm the only Democrat in my all-Republican family, which is why I'm in San Francisco and they're still in Oklahoma). There was much laughter until I read the book. Then a bookworm friend of mine told me about the underground buzz on a book from a new press in San Francisco. I bought the book and read it in one weekend.The book was Burn by Jenni. "Forget sunscreen honey 'cause you're still gonna burn" according to A Customer. In a world where "literary fiction" has come to mean any pretentious [fluff] published by multi-national corporations that festers in high-end "independent" bookstore display windows, Jennifer Fink delivers the antidote. Burn is a meditation in an emergency-- to borrow from a Frank O'Hara poem-- which is apt, since-- like O'Hara, Fink renders the everyday in every way. Fink manages to sustain O'Hara's whimsy and play wh
--Matthew StadlerBurn is without a doubt the best first novel I have read in a long, long time. -- Rebecca Brown"Fink's amazing writing suspends the reader in a seamless erotic tragedydeserves to be recognized as a literary classic." -- Patrick Califia"This is a haunting, timely, and beautifully unresolved novel." -- Matthew StadlerBurn is without a doubt the best first novel I have read in a long, long time. --Rebecca BrownFink's amazing writing suspends the reader in a seamless erotic tragedydeserves to be recognized as a literary classic. --Patrick Califia . --Rebecca BrownFink's amazing writing suspends the reader in a seamless erotic tragedydeserves to be recognized as a literary classic. "Burn is without a doubt the best first novel I have read in a long, long time. --Patrick CalifiaThis is a haunt
. She has authored two novels, V and Burn, both published by Suspect Thoughts Press. She is mother to a gorgeous and hilarious baby girl and is at work on her third novel, Brill. Jennifer Natalya Fink is a professor of English at Georgetown University. Dr. Jennifer and her family live in the DC area