Издания и произведения

Joyce Carol Oates calls debut author Clare Beams “wickedly sharp-eyed, wholly unpredictable …a female /feminist voice for the twenty-first century.” The literary, historic, and fantastic collide in these wise and exquisitely unsettling stories. From bewildering assemblies in school auditoriums to the murky waters of a Depression-era health resort, Beams’s landscapes are tinged with otherworldliness, and her characters’ desires stretch the limits of reality. Ing énues at a boarding school bind themselves to their headmaster’s vision of perfection ; a nineteenth-century landscape architect embarks on his first major project, but finds the…