The Talking Room

The Talking Room reflects an apocalyptic vision of the late 20th century, seen through the eyes of a pregnant 13 year old who may or may not be a test tube baby.  The Lesbian relationship between the mother J-wild, lost, beautiful-and competent Aunt V, a business woman, reveals itself to the reader as "the talking room" becomes the sounding board for endless fights, endless reconciliations.  V's desperate search for the beloved J through the nights of waterfront bars is lightened by wildly comic excursions reminiscent of our great American humorists.  With wit, poetic clarity and compassion, Marianne Hauser explores the paradoxes of our age-need for love yet flight from love, search for self yet self-destruction- a dilemma sared alike by today's heterosexual and homosexual world.  The author's multifaceted view defies dogma or simplification as her characters draw us into their turbulent and deeply human drama.

Literature & Fiction

Hauser, Marianne

Genre Fiction

Fc2/Black Ice Books

The Talking Room reflects an apocalyptic vision of the late 20th century, seen through the eyes of a pregnant 13 year old who may or may not be a test tube baby. The Lesbian relationship between the mother J-wild, lost, beautiful-and competent Aunt V, a business woman, reveals itself to the reader as "the talking room" becomes the sounding board for endless fights, endless reconciliations. V's desperate search for the beloved J through the nights of waterfront bars is lightened by wildly comic excursions reminiscent of our great American humorists. With wit, poetic clarity and compassion, Marianne Hauser explores the paradoxes of our age-need for love yet flight from love, search for self yet self-destruction- a dilemma sared alike by today's heterosexual and homosexual world. The author's multifaceted view defies dogma or simplification as her characters draw us into their turbulent and deeply human drama.

Fiction Collective 2

Now dead, Ashley, a failed writer, looks back on his life with Gwen, his wealthy spouse, and recalls the circumstances leading to his death

Memoirs Of The Late Mr. Ashley (The New American fiction series)

Sun & Moon Press

The Memoirs of the Late Mr. Ashley: An American Comedy (New American Fiction)

The Memoirs of the Late Mr. Ashley: An American Comedy

Sun Moon Pr

The narrator, a practical and down-to-earth sort, has feelings of guilt once she is forced to put her mother, a lifelong dreamer, in a nursing home

Me & My Mom

Marianne Hauser's short fiction is a literary documentary of exile, the other-worldly travelogue of an imagination permanently displaced. These accounts of expatriates and lost children situate us in foreign realms, between the titillating intimacies of strangers and looming brutalities we can never quite see. In Hauser's fiction, expatriation is not a historical accident but a condition as essential to humans as breathing or speech. A young boy's suicide in "Heartlands Beat" or a child's vision of her piano teacher's corpse invoke the permanent dislocations that adulthood can never overcome. It is as though birth were, for Hauser, the great forced migration, an incomprehensible banishment from some homeland every child can remember. Her characters gaze in bewilderment at the crude and violent landscape that, through preposterous twistings, they have come to occupy, wondering how they could have ended so incongruously, unable to imagine any dwelling but here. Beautiful fabrications from the writer about whom Anais Nin remarked, "She deftly weaves the strange, the unknown, the unfamiliar, the perverse, into a fabric of human fallibilities that draws drama and farce close to us."

The Collected Short Fiction of Marianne Hauser

Contemporary

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The Talking Room

The Talking Room

Memoirs Of The Late Mr. Ashley (The New American fiction series)

The Memoirs of the Late Mr. Ashley: An American Comedy (New American Fiction)

The Memoirs of the Late Mr. Ashley: An American Comedy

Me & My Mom

The Collected Short Fiction of Marianne Hauser