· The following is from Kathryn Schwille's novel, What Luck, This Life. Set soon before the invasion of Iraq, the novel details the aftermath of the Columbia space shuttle and its contents raining down on the town of Kiser, Texas. Kathryn Schwille's fiction has been published in several literary journals and has twice received Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins. What Luck, This Life, a brilliant exploration of what happened to people on the ground when the space shuttle Colulmbia exploded over east Texas in early One by one, Kathryn Schwille's characters react to discoveries: a silver piece of metal the size of a turkey platter, a shoe containing the foot of a black man, a piece of pipe that looks like a fingerbone, a man in a flight suit caught up in a tree/5. The stunningly-crafted WHAT LUCK, THIS LIFE is set in fictional Kiser, Texas against the backdrop of the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster. Told in brief vignettes, WHAT LUCK, THIS LIFE is not so much a story as it is a character study of raw honesty of the desperate, yet somehow hopeful, residents of the small town.5/5(9).
www.doorway.ru: What Luck, This Life: A Novel (): Kathryn Schwille: Books. Skip to main www.doorway.ru Hello Select your address Books. KATHRYN SCHWILLE. Kathryn Schwille is the author of the novel, What Luck, This Life, selected by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as one of the best Southern books of Her fiction has appeared in New Letters, Memorious, Crazyhorse, West Branch, Sycamore Review and other literary journals. Her stories have twice received special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology. "What luck, this life begins in the aftermath of the space shuttle's break-up, as the people of Piney Woods watch their pastures swarm with searchers and reporters bluster at their doors. A shop owner defends herself against a sexual predator who is pushed to new boldness after he is disinvited to his family reunion. A closeted father facing a divorce that will leave his gifted boy adrift.
The Columbia space shuttle and its contents rain down on the people of Kiser, Texas, in Kathryn Schwille’s imaginative debut novel set six weeks before the invasion of Iraq. What Luck, This Life begins in the aftermath of the space shuttle’s break-up, as the people of Piney Woods watch their pastures swarm with searchers and reporters. "What Luck, This Life begins in the aftermath of the space shuttles break-up, as the people of Piney Woods watch their pastures swarm with searchers and reporters bluster at their doors. A shop owner defends herself against a sexual predator who is pushed to new boldness after he is disinvited to his family reunion. A closeted father facing a divorce that will leave his gifted boy adrift. The stunningly-crafted WHAT LUCK, THIS LIFE is set in fictional Kiser, Texas against the backdrop of the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster. Told in brief vignettes, WHAT LUCK, THIS LIFE is not so much a story as it is a character study of raw honesty of the desperate, yet somehow hopeful, residents of the small town.
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