Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells

Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin DellsLittle Reef and Other Stories announces the arrival of an original voice in literature. From Key West to Maine, Michael Carroll's debut collection of stories depicts the lives of characters who are no longer provincial but are not yet cosmopolitan. These women and their gay male friends are "B listers" of a new, ironic, media soaked culture. They live in a rich but increasingly divided America, a weirdly paradoxical country increasingly accepting of

Little Reef and Other Stories announces the arrival of an original voice in literature. From Key West to Maine, Michael Carroll's debut collection of stories depicts the lives of characters who are no longer provincial but are not yet cosmopolitan. These women and their gay male friends are "B-listers" of a new, ironic, media-soaked culture. They live in a rich but increasingly divided America, a weirdly paradoxical country increasingly accepting of gay marriage but still marked by prejudice, religious strictures, and swaths of poverty and hopelessness. Carroll shows us people stunned by the shock of the now, who have forgotten their pasts and can't envision a future.

Winner, Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, American Academy of Arts and Letters

Finalist, Gay Fiction, Lambda Literary Award

Finalist, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, Publishing Triangle

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 07/18/2008
ISBN: 9780299226046
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.90w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Choice 02/01/2009