The Rooms We Make Our Own [Paperback]

Toni Mirosevich (Author)

Editorial Reviews

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Mirosevich's four-part collection of poetry and short prose evokes the ghosts of Gandhi, Betty Crocker, Hamlet's sad Ophelia, and Virginia Woolf, all joining the contemporary workforce approaching the second millennium. Madonna, not yet a ghost, is there, too--a small woman who drives a 35-foot trailer truck and is "scrutinized" by "trucker paparazzi" with "their mouths so open birds could build" in them. Other characters include Russian emigres who, no longer afraid, no longer whisper; a traveler to Arizona encountering a waitress-seer; and a woman who lost her Brittany spaniel to her ex-lover, whom she can forgive for cruelty, bad judgment, and ignorance but not for giving the dog away. A "lost dog" feeling pervades these portraits of anomic and truncated spirits striving for wholeness against overwhelming odds, both external and internal. Whitney Scott --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 107 pages
• Publisher: Firebrand Books (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156341080X
• ISBN-13: 978-1563410802
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,386,913 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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