Will She Understand?: New Short Stories

by Fielding Dawson

In these thirty-two stories, Dawson confirms and extends his mastery of a form he helped the projectivist tale, in which a heightened sensitivity of attention registers in hair’s-breadth detail not just physical realities but emotional events occurring in transformational, dreamlike, intuitional dimensions.

180 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1988

About the author

Fielding Dawson was an American author of short stories and novels, a painter and collagist, and a student at Black Mountain College.

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

This may have been the book most responsible for me wanting to be a short story writer when I was young. Dawson's experiments in language and form blew my mind when I was in high school, and the ironic quality of his straight-forward work was great. It had a very serious, non-joking sort of irony that is rarely found today.