Kasischke has a terrific reputation in both fiction and poetry, as well as success in finding reviews and awards (she was the 2011 NBCC Award winner in poetry for Space in Chains)
If a Stranger Approaches is Kasischke's first collection of short fiction, as we expect it to generate significant attention as such
The qualities that Kasischke is known for in her poems (The New York Times noted her "syntactic control and pace") are a strength in her prose as well, and make for stories that generate tension and surprise without resorting to gimmicks
Sarabande's on a run of fiction by women with an interest in the surreal (the forthcoming Rise and, more notably, This Is Not Your City) and this fits in nicely with those titles-they're collections that break the bounds of what we expect from the genre
Lionel Shriver meets Angela Carter
- ISBN10 1322534489
- ISBN13 9781322534480
- Publish Date 1 January 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Sarabande Books
- Format eBook
- Language English