Lives of Mapmakers (Carnegie Mellon Short Fiction Series)
By Alicia L. Conroy.
Description
Alicia L. Conroy's stories stretch the boundaries of form and language to demarcate an imaginary territory of her own devising. The characters in Lives of Mapmakers—whether a contemporary farm worker or a sixteenth-century cartographer—seek direction in their lives. Their journeys are ethereal and magical: the discovery of a prairie mermaid exposes the best and worst in people, teenagers puzzle over their bodies' changing geographies and, in the title story, a mapmaker's quest to perfect his worldview becomes part of a narrative fabric that spans centuries. Conroy...
ISBN(s)
0887484514, 9780887484513
