Ebook {Epub PDF} Squandering the Blue: Stories by Kate Braverman

 · On "Squandering the Blue" by Kate Braverman *****. Braverman's first collection of stories explores the lives of women overcoming drug and alcohol addictions (or giving into them). It explores colors--especially blue. And it explores language, as Braverman's work always does. Of the three books I've read of Braverman's, this one remains my favorite, in part because of the unity of .  · The women in Kate Braverman's first collection of short stories seem to have stepped from the works of Joan Didion into another color scheme. SQUANDERING THE BLUE By Kate Braverman (Ballantine. Braverman truly deserves to be better known; her unsentimental, uncompromising world view recalls the best of Oates and Didion. "Squandering the Blue", a series of 12 interlocking stories set for the most part in Los Angeles especially bring Didion to mind. In Braverman's L.A., "The air is ancient, sharp, and malicious. It was here first."4/5(21).

Stories In this collection have appeared in The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Lea/ s, American Vozce, Crosscurrents, and Story. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Braverman, Kate. Squandering the blue, stories / Kate Braverman.—lst ed. cm. ISBN I. Title. Il. Title: Squandering the blue. PSRS68 ' Squandering the Blue: Stories Kate Braverman, Author Fawcett Books $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. Small Craft Warnings: Stories; THE INCANTATION. The blue is the fix and excitement an addict gets from drugs. Addicts look for an escape. They feel that if they just have that hit they will enjoy life and its experiences to a fuller extent. In Kate Braverman's short story "Tall Tales From the Mekong Delta," she describes one woman's struggle with drugs. Read More.

Squandering the Blue: Stories. In her first story collection poet and novelist Braverman (Lithium for Medea ; Palm Latitudes) creates a mosaic with an integral connectedness; the 12 stories form. On "Squandering the Blue" by Kate Braverman *****. Braverman's first collection of stories explores the lives of women overcoming drug and alcohol addictions (or giving into them). It explores colors--especially blue. And it explores language, as Braverman's work always does. Of the three books I've read of Braverman's, this one remains my favorite, in part because of the unity of theme, in part because when she hits her stride, the stories sting. Kate! Kate! Kate!.