Jackie Gleeson's neighborhood

• Main Author: Garoupa, Justin Craig
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Fairbanks; Half Moon Bay; Moon Bay; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/6068

Thesis (M.F.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2005 Jackie Gleeson's Neighborhood is a collection of short stories that deal in narratives of possession and the struggle of an individual toward what some readers might consider a 'lesser epiphany.' The characters of the stories attempt to own and separate themselves from the world at large through the act of storytelling and the examination of their landscape through metaphor. This collection moves through experience and draws the common thread of connection between what we feel and what our minds allow us to see. The result of this re-visioning is not always change or knowledge but feelings of hope, terror, and possibility. Cat aquarium -- The coarsegold dawn -- Flocks at Half-Moon Bay -- Straits -- Day comes to the painted road -- Horses never seem intent on pissing -- Jackie Gleason's neighborhood -- Runners -- The bicycle -- Complainations.