Princess of Oranges is a collection of ten stories set in 1970s Orlando, Florida. The stories render a world where adult dysfunction forces children to choose from a menu of the perilous and the precarious. The juvenilizing adults seem able only to live love as illness, triumph as a lie, self-awareness as self-destruction. The stories are about how the ill-equipped take on dilemmas of care and love. / The collection is thematically centered around the consciousness of Fay Kinney. At her youngest, Fay is nine, at her oldest, sixteen. Four stories trace her sexual and emotional initiations into the adult world via adolescent female modes of reconciling identity. Two stories show Fay simultaneously saving and destroying her brother as he assembles his escapes. / Four stories examine how women's relationships come of age as mothers and daughters and friends revise the ways see themselves and the way they tell their stories. In conflict with their husbands, friends, and each other, the girlfriends in "Winter Heat," the stepmother in "Lost Lake," the grandmother in "Greenie," and the mother and daughter in the title story struggle towards new, transcendent senses of self and place. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-03, Section: A, page: 0798. / Major Professor: Jerome Stern. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992. / Princess of Oranges is a collection of ten stories set in 1970s Orlando, Florida. The stories render a world where adult dysfunction forces children to choose from a menu of the perilous and the precarious. The juvenilizing adults seem able only to live love as illness, triumph as a lie, self-awareness as self-destruction. The stories are about how the ill-equipped take on dilemmas of care and love. / The collection is thematically centered around the consciousness of Fay Kinney. At her youngest, Fay is nine, at her oldest, sixteen. Four stories trace her sexual and emotional initiations into the adult world via adolescent female modes of reconciling identity. Two stories show Fay simultaneously saving and destroying her brother as he assembles his escapes. / Four stories examine how women's relationships come of age as mothers and daughters and friends revise the ways see themselves and the way they tell their stories. In conflict with their husbands, friends, and each other, the girlfriends in "Winter Heat," the stepmother in "Lost Lake," the grandmother in "Greenie," and the mother and daughter in the title story struggle towards new, transcendent senses of self and place.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_68302 |
| Creators | Sellers, Heather Laurie |
| Publisher | Florida State University Libraries |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
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