Wide Eyed

by Trinie Dalton

Book Overview

In Trinie Dalton's tweaked vision of reality, psychic communications between herself and Mick Jagger, The Flaming Lips, Marc Bolan, Lou Reed, and Pavement are daily occurrences. Animals also populate this book: beavers, hamsters, salamanders, black widows, owls, llamas, bats, and many more are characters who befriend the narrator. This collection of stories is told by a woman compelled to divulge her secrets, fantasies, and obsessions with native...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888451866
• ISBN13: 9781888451863
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Akashic Books
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Short Fiction

One of the best short fiction books to come out in years. Don't bother reading the summaries because they make the book sound like the rantings of a space case. But I swear the prose comes together to create a series of gorgeous moments that come together into a beautiful, fun, and sad whole. My girlfriend and I read these stories out loud to each other as bedtime stories, and both of us read it on our own. If you like Dave Eggers, Denis Johnson, Isabel Allende, or David Sedaris, I can recommend this book. And if you hate those guys, read this as an alternative.

bordering the realm of the subliminal and the everyday

I love these stories because they almost make me feel uncomfortable in some lines and mystical in others. These are the stories of our own lives, the things many of us experience growing up or in the day to day but that we usually don't bring back up to the surface---moments of awkwarness, of embarrasment, of unthinkable thought and action-subliminal. These stories gather all the little isolated absurdist thoughts we create and never share, that we think our own and we are confronted with them right up front. And, then just when you think you can't look in the mirror any longer, Ms. Dalton pulls the magic out in strands---the moments of luster that come through murk---the fantasy, the spiritual, the moments of solitary joy and emergence. A lovely, lovely book!