Some Phantom/No Time Flat - 2nd Edition by Stephen Beachy (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>These paired novellas show a master writer developing some of his most emotional, vital explorations of America yet. In "Some Phantom" an unnamed woman arrives in a strange city, fleeing a violent relationship. She begins to explore the city and its inhabitants and takes a job teaching disturbed children, but she finds her own mental stability becoming more and more precarious. A marriage of "The Turn of the Screw" and Carnival of Souls, Some Phantom" poses questions about the line between memory and madness, fantasy and abuse. <BR>These questions are further elaborated in "No Time Flat, " which follows Wade, a boy living a somewhat isolated existence with his elderly parents on the American plains. Wade makes his way through a childhood marked by playground shootings and mysterious strangers before becoming a wanderer himself, inhabiting a sparse landscape of fleeting connections, lost children, and unformulated crimes.<BR><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>These paired novellas show a master writer developing some of his most emotional, vital explorations of America yet. In <i>Some Phantom</i> an unnamed woman arrives in a strange city, fleeing a violent relationship. She begins to explore the city and its inhabitants and takes a job teaching disturbed children, but she finds her own mental stability becoming more and more precarious. A marriage of <i>The Turn of the Screw</i> and Carnival of Souls, Some Phantom</i> poses questions about the line between memory and madness, fantasy and abuse. <p/>These questions are further elaborated in <i>No Time Flat, </i> which follows Wade, a boy living a somewhat isolated existence with his elderly parents on the American plains. Wade makes his way through a childhood marked by playground shootings and mysterious strangers before becoming a wanderer himself, inhabiting a sparse landscape of fleeting connections, lost children, and unformulated crimes.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Stephen Beachy</b> is the author of <i>The Whistling Song, Distortion, </i> and, most recently, <i>boneyard.</i> His writing has appeared in <i>BOMB, The New York Times Magazine, Chicago Review, Best Gay American Fiction, New York</i> magazine, and elsewhere. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and teaches at the University of San Francisco.<br>
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