Man's Companions

by Joanna Ruocco

Fiction. For the characters in MAN'S COMPANIONS, the self is a degraded version of someone else. Fantasy is stymied by performance anxiety. Delayed gratification phones in a last-minute cancellation. The fictions in this collection are mongrel, troubling the genus of story with miscegenations and mutations, and at the heart of the book is the figure of the anima non grata, the unwanted woman, a degraded version of man. Using language by turns digressive,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0982541635
• ISBN13: 9780982541630
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Tarpaulin Sky Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.0"