{"product_id":"vertigo-isbn-9780989760751","title":"Vertigo","description":"\u003cb\u003e“With wry humor and profound sensitivity, Walsh takes what is mundane and transforms it into something otherworldly with sentences that can make your heart stop. A feat of language.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Joanna Walsh's haunting and unforgettable stories enact a literal vertigo—the feeling that if I fall I will fall not toward the earth but into space—by probing the spaces between things. Waiting for news in a children's hospital, pondering her husband's multiple online flirtations or observing the tourists and locals at a third-world archeological site, her narrator approaches the suppressed state of panic coursing beneath things that are normally tamed by our blunted perceptions of ordinary life. \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e is an original and breathtaking book.” (Chris Kraus)“From the publisher that unearthed the brilliant and now-lauded Nell Zink comes another slim work of fiction as strange as it is compelling. \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e is a funny, absurd collection of stories.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Think Renata Adler's \u003ci\u003eSpeedboat\u003c\/i\u003e with a faster engine. . . . \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e reads with the exhilarating speed and concentrated force of a poetry collection. Each word seems carefully weighed and prodded for sound, taste, touch. . . . The stories are delicate, but they leave a strong impression, a lasting sense of detachment colliding with feeling, a heady destabilization.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Her writing sways between the tense and the absurd, as if it's hovering between this world and another. This time last year, Dorothy brought us Nell Zink's \u003ci\u003eThe Wallcreeper\u003c\/i\u003e. Walsh's \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e may similarly redistribute the possibilities of contemporary fiction, especially if it meets with the wider audience her work demands.” —\u003ci\u003eFlavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e, “33 Must Read Books for Fall 2015” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Beautifully simple and unembellished, Walsh's writing—most captivating in its ability to unnerve—is cleverly revealing of her protagonist's unique and sensitive personality.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Reading \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e has opened even wider my conceptions of what's possible in fiction—how a book can be like a series of photographs, like cinema. These stories appear as much as they engage with narrative, saturated with a calm yet rich color. I've not read anything like it and feel it is quietly subverting the hell out of the form.” —Amina Cain \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Stunning short, sharp shocks with insight that reminds me of the very personal work of Clarice Lispector . . . Packs a wallop into a very small space.” —Jeff VanderMeer \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This collection of work from \u003ci\u003e3:AM\u003c\/i\u003e fiction editor Joanna Walsh makes the familiar alien, breaking down and remaking quotidian situations, and in the process turning them into gripping literature.” —\u003ci\u003eVol. 1 Brooklyn \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Splendidly wry and offbeat . . . both intellectual and aware. Stories to be digested slowly, and savored.” —\u003ci\u003eSunday Herald \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Supple, floating stories that unfold like memories almost too painful to recall in an affectless voice that can be digressive or disarmingly direct but which is ultimately devastating.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[T]his book is about how embarrassing it is to be alive, how each of us is continually barred from our self. . . . \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e is a writer's coup.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The stories in Walsh's \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e are equally strange and edgy. She's a flâneur who's just as capable of representing the exterior and interior wreckage with equal precision. She takes on big ideas—partnership, loneliness, femininity, etc.—through the vibrant minutiae of contemporary experience.” —\u003ci\u003eElectric Literature \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[H]er stories reveal a psychological landscape lightly spooked by loneliness, jealousy and alienation.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The stories in \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e are by turns funny, surreal, modernist, remaining at all times accessible.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “I'm not sure I've ever read a book so full of space, though most of the distances are not geographical (some are)—they are distances from which women observe themselves living lives, and although these are lives mostly free of upheaval and privation, the unhurried urgency with which they are observed makes everything here seem vital and dangerous.” —\u003ci\u003eFanzine \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Each story is aglitter with pain and insight. . . . Moments of blazing perspicacity, creativity, intelligence, and dark humor are insanely abundant in [Walsh's] writing; they pop at every turn: like nails in the sand: like diamonds in water.” —\u003ci\u003eNuméro Cinq \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[W]hile Walsh's prose shares much stylistically with [Lydia] Davis's, her depictions of women's inner lives are closer to cinema. \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e summons the relentless long takes and domestic claustrophobia of \u003ci\u003eJeanne Dielman\u003c\/i\u003e; the black-and-white minimalism and protracted flânerie of \u003ci\u003eCléo\u003c\/i\u003e; the haunting silence at the center of Barbara Loden's \u003ci\u003eWanda\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eMusic \u0026amp; Literature\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e is a slim but deadly volume.” —\u003ci\u003eSydney Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoanna Walsh\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven books, including a digital novel, \u003ci\u003eSeed\u003c\/i\u003e, which can be found at seed-story.com, and which has also been adapted for performance. Her writing has been widely published in anthologies and journals, including The Dalkey Archive's \u003ci\u003eBest European Fiction 2015\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, and Salt's \u003ci\u003eBest British Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, 2014 and 2015. She writes criticism for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe TLS\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003e3:AM Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCatapult\u003c\/i\u003e, and she runs #readwomen, described by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as \"a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers.\"","brand":"Dorothy, a publishing project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300334588133,"sku":"NP9780989760751","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780989760751.jpg?v=1767743422","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/vertigo-isbn-9780989760751","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}