{"product_id":"nervous-dancer-stories-paperback","title":"Nervous Dancer: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarol Lee Lorenzo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lives on view in \u003ci\u003eNervous Dancer\u003c\/i\u003e are complex and precarious. Speaking their familial idioms in tones and cadences determined well before they ever appeared in these stories, Carol Lee Lorenzo's characters surge into moments of change for reasons initially not apparent. In the quirky, hard-edged ways in which they stumble, beg, come of age, fall apart, and reunite, they reveal no simple notions about life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe way women and children see men is often the focus of these stories, and female voices are the most numerous in\u003ci\u003e Nervous Dancer\u003c\/i\u003e. Singularity of character can be found in anyone, however, such as the nameless father in \"Unconfirmed Invitations,\" whose guilt over his drinking and marital infidelities leads to a bizarre hunter-gatherer compulsion. Lorenzo's women are often mothers, like LuAnn Wilson Hunter in \"Something Almost Invisible,\" who says of herself and her son that they are \"divorced from everything, we are all living in slow motion, not at home anywhere.\" Others find themselves in double binds with generational friction compounding their troubles, such as Eulene in \"Nervous Dancer,\" who informs her mother, \"Just because I'm in your house doesn't mean I've lost the right to fight with my husband.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLorenzo says that her characters are \"in the throes of love with its impurities or as sterling as it comes, and sometimes they trip the spring and the hard face of hate appears.\" She believes that \"it's not always the outside force, someone else's doing, that changes things or brings confrontation. It's our stranger within--our unspoken self that frightens and engages us. That's what story allows us to see.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCAROL LEE LORENZO leads the fiction workshops at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta. She has taught creative writing at Emory University, Oglethorpe University, and Georgia State University. Her short stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eFive Points\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEpoch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Pennsylvania Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePainted Bride\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChelsea\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSou'easter\u003c\/i\u003e, among other literary journals. Lorenzo is the author of three novels for young adults.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42737572642879,"sku":"9780820339955","price":31.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/285e3b32124412a95a3615007e0b3316.webp?v=1765150385","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/nervous-dancer-stories-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}