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Overview
"Elana Greenfield and the English language use each other beautifully. She makes little plays, stories long and short. The short ones, on another day, might have been poems. She is a lovely, lively writer."—Grace Paley
This new collection of dramatic short tales is a remarkable first work by dramatist Elana Greenfield. In these stories, the author peers into the supernatural with passion, humor, irony and a remarkable matter-of-fact voice. In "Possessed by a Demon," the devil reveals himself through two women who are both the narrators and the central characters. In "Talent," Greenfield tells the story of a woman trying to transcend the elusiveness of love. And in "The Premonitions," she lyrically predicts the life of Jesus. Together these pieces work toward self-discovery and awareness, while relinquishing the need to explain the inexplicable.
Elana Greenfield lives in New York City.
Synopsis
A selection of short pieces in the form of drama and dialogue.
Publishers Weekly
"Lynol lay unconscious on the floor of the helicopter. His heart had died and been reborn a parachute." So begins "The Soldier's Dream," one of 13 Robert Coover-like prose dramas in At the Damascus Gate: Short Hallucinations, the first book compiled by Elana Greenfield, acting director of New School University's Arts in Context Program and incarnator of many voices: "I am the psychopathic blond vixen on the soaps,/ says my heart/ And you can't turn me off." Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.