| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77326 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree. | en_US |
| dc.format | Monograph | |
| dc.format.medium | Electronic Resource | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dcterms.abstract | Kerry Anderson's novella, The Pinochet Clock, takes us on a dreaming tour of urban Chile, where loss hangs in the air like the smog. Sophie,the newly arrived, 26-year-old English teacher, is a lost girl who hopes to lessen the weight of her boyfriend's death by embarking on a quest to find the Chilean father she never knew. What she finds is a people scarred in ways large and small by the mass disappearances and loss of the Pinochet years. Old men stuck in their Pinochet ways, women imprisoned in their traditional marriages, youth who seek to lift the heaviness of the past with partying, sex and anarchy; and ex-pat Americans bumping and bungling their way through all the color and exoticism. As Sophie seeks to heal her emotional barrenness by bathing in sensory overload, she careens along like the cheap buses she takes. She looks for affection with all the hunger of a stray dog and slips in and out of sex and friendship as impulsively as she switches between her American and Spanish languages. Kerry has done a fine job of describing the sensuality of both setting and relationships. Sex is harder to write about than it looks and she handles Sophie's intimacies with a nice combination of empathy and heat. The writing climbs to its apogee with Sophie's description of what it would be like to live on a Valparaiso cliff-side: a lover with whom to eat avocado and adopt a dog and " everything would be simple and he would never die." It is simultaneously an urgent call to life and, finally, an acknowledgement of death. | |
| dcterms.available | 2017-09-20T16:52:31Z | |
| dcterms.contributor | Walker, Lou Ann | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Jones, Kaylie | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Simonson, Helen. | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | Anderson, Kerry | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-09-20T16:52:31Z | |
| dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2017-09-20T16:52:31Z | |
| dcterms.description | Department of Creative Writing and Literature. | en_US |
| dcterms.extent | 145 pg. | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Application/PDF | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Monograph | |
| dcterms.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77326 | |
| dcterms.issued | 2015-05-01 | |
| dcterms.language | en_US | |
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Previous issue date: 2015 | en |
| dcterms.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dcterms.subject | Literature | |
| dcterms.title | The Pinochet Clock | |
| dcterms.type | Thesis | |
