Someone to Talk To | Robin A. Werner
In the following essay, Werner gives a critical analysis of Eisenberg's life and work.
Robin A. Werner
In the following essay, Werner gives a critical analysis of Eisenberg's life and work.
The characters in Deborah Eisenberg's stories are often lost. Whether they travel through a foreign country or their own equally alien, familiar worlds, they are on quests of discovery. Throughout her three volumes of short fiction, this theme is consistently honed and refined. Employing vivid descriptions and poignant symbols, Eisenberg takes her readers along into a world that is strangely familiar. Her witty prose and dramatic delineation of character deepen...
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