The Petals of Your Eyes The debut novel by an award-winning author of short stories. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her first collection, Woman with Dark Horses, won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Ficti
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| Title | : | The Petals of Your Eyes |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (295 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1938603206 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-13 |
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The debut novel by an award-winning author of short stories. Kidnapped girls trapped in a remote theater surrounded by mountains and jungle are forced into illegal performances, displayed in cabinets with curiosities, delicate limbs bound by straps, accompanied by dancing puppets fashioned of dead children's bones. The Petals of Your Eyes conjures up a painful, poetic world that won't soon be forgotten.Aimee Parksion is an associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Parkison has received a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, a Writers at Work Fellowship, and a Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize from North American Review. Her first collection, Woman with Dark Horses, won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, judged by Cris Mazza. Parkison has an MFA in creative writing from Cornell University. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Editorial : "Highly recommended for readers on the edge."
- Library Journal
"A fairy tale so harrowing it reads like a screen memory so harrowing it must be true."
- Joyelle McSweeney, The Brooklyn Rail
"A darkly beautiful, surreal novel about children trapped in an obscure sex trade."
- Shelf Awareness
"In the rippling ripeness of The Petals of Your Eyes, Aimee Parkison collects the high-gloss tropic tropes of richly ruined Romanticism. The effect is beyond the wild blue yonder, sublimely sublime, as if Mr. Poe himself had made it and was streaming back the searing steam-punked celestial."
- Michael Martone
"Parkison won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction in 2004, and one can see why. Her new novel opens, Captured girls in cabinets with curiosities. One is my sister, and the other my lover.” The concept is boldly creepy, the language eerily elegant, and the result not surreal entertainment but a point
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