Shiny Objects (Iowa Short Fiction Award)

by Dianne Benedict

Book Overview

A successful professional painter and art instructor for years, Benedict was dissatisfied that she could paint petal-perfect flowers and expensive portraits of wealthy clients, but could not capture the light on the garden at dusk or the tender hands and faces of her own children.a Seven years ago she walked into a poetry workshop and found the window I needed for my imagination.a She never painted another painting, and has never stopped writing.a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877451168
• ISBN13: 9780877451167
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful, imaginative, imagistic book.

I first read SHINY OBJECTS in around 1983. Dianne was a teacher of mine at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. I loved it. The stories are unique, and original with a gentle, wonderful breeze of a voice. Her narratives are unusual and deep, expressing invaluable and poetic images and insights into childlike perceptions and even grotesque realities. It haunts me and I still find myself in quiet moments 17 years later, aware of it inside me. Dianne write me: rudy@kdsi.net please.