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A Handbook for Drown in#
David Shield*
Knopf, 1992
$19.00
David Shields is i» writer of
few words The Seattle author
drew < oust-to-i oast praise for
his first novel, Dead languages.
which convoyed both humor
and heartache in a sharp, mini
malist style
A Hundlxtok for Drowning.
Shield's new collection, con
firms his ability to tel! a mean
ingful tale in us few words as
possible
Handbook's 24 stories re
volve around one main charac
ter. Walter, and they offer quick
glimpses of his life growing up
in the late IMOOs, and his at
tempts at relationships with his
girlfriend, his terminally ill
mother and his embittered and
demanding father.
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As short ns they am. most of
these pterms do come off with
an ama/ing amount of emotion
il pull, and the sparse style
heightens each story's Intensi
ty. Shield's bore-bones ap
proach works best in stories
like "The Imaginary Dead Baby
Seagull," "Sudden Affection**
and "War Wounds,” which are
small, understated life-events
that carry Immense meaning for
Wall
But some of the pieces are
cut just too close. "Northern
lights,.rho Heroic Mode"
and "father's Day" ore pared
down to mere character
sketches', and thus, Walter's
revelations seem incomplete or
trivial.
And a byproduct of Shields
minimalism is a forced kind of
symbolism that finds its way
uncomfortably into stories like
"The War on Poverty.” In
"Poverty," Walt's white, liberal
mother eases the family con
science by hiring a black maid.
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Stylistic shortcomings aside,
however, A Handbook for
Drowning is still worth Its
(hriof) reading time. The major
ity of pieces — probably 18 of
the 24 — work well enough to
form an interesting, if not in
depth glance into Walt's curi
ous psycho This may not he
the ratio for a perfect short sto
ry collection, but for a good,
fast read, it's more than the
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