{"product_id":"spirit-seizures-9780820341057","title":"Spirit Seizures","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn these stories by Melissa Pritchard, the past brushes up against the present, the voices of both the sane and the obsessed are heard, and the spirits speaking unbidden through the mouths of some spurn others who desire them most. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome of the men and women in \u003ci\u003eSpirit Seizures\u003c\/i\u003e dwell contentedly on the surface of life, even making a science or an art of what they see around them. But many of the characters in these stories see--sometimes calmly, sometimes with agitation--beneath life's surface, beyond sun's light. The title story tells of a psychic women, pregnant with her second child, who welcomes over her farmer husband's objections the visits of an older couple desiring a s ance with the spirit of their dead daughter. Spirits are also summoned in \"Rocking on Water, Floating in Glass,\" when a woman consults the shade of Sarah Bernhardt to help her decide whether to leave her refuge in a dark antique shop and reenter the world of the living. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe husband in \"Ramon; Souvenirs\" recalls his wife's obsession with pueblo culture and her ambitious courtship of the impotent Indian elder who she hopes will initiate her into native spiritual mysteries. But the greatest desire of La B te, a spectacularly obese model painted by the French impressionists, is to herself become a perfect object, viewed and adored for her form, not her crude essence. Mrs. Grant in \"With Wings Cross Water\" is painfully isolated from the surface of her family's life by her fears of terminal illness, of what lies beneath her skin. And Mrs. Gump, the reverend's housekeeper, prays and cleans the house furiously, hoping to obliterate all traces of the worldly beauty that distracts her employer and her artist son from the hereafter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with humor but often poignant when they reveal the veins of longing that run through men and women, the stories in \u003ci\u003eSpirit Seizures\u003c\/i\u003e follow the elusive currents that link us to the eternal, the fluid boundaries that wash between love and mourning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melissa Pritchard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820341057\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMelissa Pritchard is the award-winning author of three additional story collections, \"The Odditorium,\" \"The Instinct for\"\" Bliss,\" and \"Disappearing Ingenue: The Misadventures of Eleanor Stoddard,\" and three novels, \"Late Bloomer,\" \"Selene of the Spirits,\" and \"Phoenix.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40195957424243,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_da148b1c-a74e-4453-be52-cd42cd5757ff.jpg?v=1655992882","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/spirit-seizures-9780820341057","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}