{"product_id":"double-check-for-sleeping-children-stories-paperback-softback-9781573662062","title":"Double-Check for Sleeping Children; Stories (Paperback \/ softback) 9781573662062","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDouble-Check for Sleeping Children\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eStories\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKirstin Allio (Author), Matt Bell (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781573662062\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e254 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Formally daring, relentlessly probing, Kirstin Allio’s writing heaves the reader into a world of predation and initiation, habit and sally. \u003ci\u003eDouble-Check for Sleeping Children\u003c\/i\u003e joins the ranks of singular short story collections such as Jayne Anne Phillips’s \u003ci\u003eBlack Tickets\u003c\/i\u003e and Garielle Lutz’s \u003ci\u003eStories in the Worst Way\u003c\/i\u003e. I was floored by this book.”—JoAnna Novak, author of \u003ci\u003eContradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe winner of the FC2 Catherine L. Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, Double-Check for Sleeping Children is the newest work by award-winning writer Kirstin Allio\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At once formal and tidal, damning and dreaming, Kirstin Allio’s \u003ci\u003eDouble-Check for Sleeping Children\u003c\/i\u003e is charged with prayer, curse, redemption and abasement. Does truth come from reason, or beauty, or suffering? It takes the inner lives of outsiders, dark mirrors, and false ceilings to find an answer. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Families split by social class, a wealthy young widow, addicts, hunters, poor whites, a green card bride and a nursing mother: in twenty poetically and morally propulsive short stories, Allio disquiets the sublimated and palpates shadows. She leads us through the sometimes flooded, other times flood-lit halls of the human soul. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part menacing, macabre Mary Gaitskill, part Denis Johnson in \u003ci\u003eJesus’ Son\u003c\/i\u003e, and with the taut, wry, tell-all detail of Elizabeth Hardwick, \u003ci\u003eDouble-Check for Sleeping Children\u003c\/i\u003e deals in codedness and transgression. The stories explore coming of age in middle age, anxiety about time and technology, inverted revelation. “What was I supposed to do with Basho and Mosie?” Sheila asks herself about her children in “Uncollected Territories.” “Be my real self? Hand myself over, do what you will with me, plant your strange selves in my private soil?” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fiction Collective 2","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52620077007128,"sku":"9781573662062","price":13.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/double-check-for-sleeping-children-stories-paperback-softback-9781573662062","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}