Apartment in Viareggio: A Collection of Short Stories With Critical Introduction

Abstract

This collection represents stories written during a three year period, from the fall of 2004 to the spring of 2007. All of the stories, with the exception of "Flyover," were written for fiction workshops at Oklahoma State. The work follows in the tradition of the literary short story, with themes including: travel, pop culture, the relationship between people and their environment, the struggle to achieve meaningful human contact in the contemporary world, the transition between adolescence and adulthood, and the essential loneliness of the human condition.