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bill in tennessee
susan can make formica disquieting. Many photographers have been on the road, few have taken a picture and left it hanging, lighter than air and about to break and drop to the floor under the weight of a trip, like MsLipper has. And there is a book of these wonderful, thoughtful photographs.

"Trip" is a trip!
Do not buy this book looking for familiar signs of travel or a destination. The "trip" you, the viewer, embark upon is not the sort which gets you "there". Rather it is an experience akin tothe wakening one might have following a long, vacant stare and realizingthat, despite your own logic or familiarity with the world, the most commonobject has the potential for revealing puzzling, but significant, meaning.

Through the use of her camera's frame and lens Lipperevokes/creates/invents realities that force unanswered questions and posemystery. Frederick Barthelme's fiction hauntingly echoes the quality ofdislocation permeated in the photographs. Together the text and photographscreate an ambitious concept of contemporary existence.

"Trip"is a beautiful, smart, funny and disturbing book.

Bold leap with new work.
Susan Lipper has taken a bold leap in presenting a body of work which touches on the real, imagined, mundane and the bizarre. A lonely trip of images which are echoed by the strange and brilliant narrative by FrederickBarthelme. Trip is a provocative voyage, part fictional, part realitythrough a maze of back roads, bayous, motels and various unidentifiedlocales. The resultant work is one which alternately confuses andenlightens. Is this work theater, documentary, fantasy, dream, nightmare orsome sad reality? Probably a little of each. Trip is a huge departure fromLipper's previous book "Grapevine" and I applaud her courageousstep towards the new and unknown. I recommend this unique book. ... Read more

Product Description
Sixteen instructional outlines for the collection of stories deemed "The Year's Best 1994." Contains story summaries, discussion questions with possible answers, and biographical information on each author. Highly suitable for courses in contemporary Southern literature or writing workshops. ... Read more