Counternarratives [Paperback]

Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents,Of the scope of William T. Vollmann or Samuel R. Delany, but with a kaleidoscopic intuition all its own,Keene exerts superb control over his stories, costuming them in the style of Jorge Luis Borges. Yet he preserves the undercurrent of excitement and pathos that accompanies his characters persecution and their groping toward?freedom.