Animal Spirit Stories

Description: From the author of the acclaimed story collection The Other Language comes a fresh collection of six colorful richly realized stories told with inimitable humor exactitude and heart. Centered in Rome but transporting us into worlds as varied and alluring as they are emotionally real Francesca Marciano's stories paint landscapes that are populated vividly hauntingly by animals: from violent seagulls and starlings circling the evening sky in exhilarating formation to magical snakes and a tiny dog on the side of a deserted road. In unforgettable cinematic frames events unfold especially in the lives of women. An affair ends painfully at a dinner table an actress's past comes crashing down on her during an audition an unhappy wife seeks respite in a historic palazzo sublet. Two starkly different couples imagine parenthood during a Greek island holiday and a young girl returns from rehab deciding to set out anew with a traveling circus. A man in crisis draws his ex - lover deep into the New Mexico desert. With spellbinding clarity the six masterly stories in Animal Spirit inhabit the minds and hearts of Marciano's characters. They chronicle deeply human moments of realization and recognition indelible instants of irrevocable change epiphanies sometimes sparked by our connection with animals and the primal power they show us.
Title: Animal Spirit Stories
Barcode: 9780525565741
Publication Date: 5/18/2021
Series: Vintage Contemporaries