Lost Lake: Stories
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780375402159 (0375402152)
Publish date: May 5th 1998
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf
Pages no: 177
Edition language: English
Short stories. Lyrical prose. Memory pieces.
Mark Slouka’s Lost Lake feels more like an extended prose poem than a collection of stories. It’s an elegiac, often melancholy, and quietly moral set of interconnected vignettes, heavy on setting and character but light on plot; reading it evokes the sensation of lying in a boat gently floating in t...