Drift: Stories (Paperback)

By Victoria Patterson
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Description

Welcome to Newport Beach, California--a community often found glittering in the spotlight, but one that isn't always as glamorous as we imagine. Through the lives of waiters and waitresses, divorced and single parents, and alienated teens, Victoria Patterson's Drift offers a rare and rewarding view into the real life of this nearly mythical place, all the while plumbing the depths of female friendship and what it means to be an outsider. Fresh, energetic, deceptively powerful and delightfully frank, hers is a voice you won't be able to stop reading.

About the Author

VICTORIA PATTERSON grew up in Newport Beach and received her MFA from UC Riverside. Her award-winning short fiction has appeared in the Santa Monica Review, the Florida Review, and Snake-Nation Review, among other publications. She lives with her family in South Pasadena, California.

Praise for Drift: Stories…

Victoria Patterson''s Newport Beach is a privileged world of wealth and heedless consumption that trails a wake of human damage.  By giving us nuanced portraits of the sidelined, she somehow evokes the complex, glittering whole. Patterson is our generation''s heir to John O''Hara and Edith Wharton. And nobody else writes about female sexuality with such sensitivity and fearlessness. Several times, I had to put this book down just to catch my breath.  —Michelle Huneven, author of Jamesland and Round Rock

Victoria Patterson’s beautiful stories br

"Victoria Patterson has enormous talent and I suspect we''ll be hearing a lot more from her."



"If I could write just a single story as beautiful and heartbreaking and intelligent as the thirteen linked together in Drift, I''m pretty sure that I could die a happy man.  Victoria Patterson makes me envious as hell, and I applaud her for it."



"Set against the affluence of Newport Beach, Patterson’s debut collection often focuses on the enclaves’ outcasts—waitstaff, divorcées, alcoholics, and drug addicts—as her characters confront personal battles, the limits of friendship, and the bleary anticipation of a different life. Patterson’s 13 engaging tales offer keen perspectives on life lived on the fringe."



"Patterson''s unflinching account of the seedy side of a real-life Xanadu is frightening, immersive, and wonderfully realized."

Product Details ISBN-10: 0547054947
ISBN-13: 9780547054940
Published: Mariner Books, 06/01/2009
Pages: 240
Language: English