Couples, Passerby

Trade Cloth – $24.95
ISBN 978-0-8101-1242-1Publication Date
December 1996
Categories
Page Count
126 pages
Trim Size
5 1/4 x 8 1/2
ISBN
0-8101-1242-6
Couples, Passerby
The six linked sections of Couples, Passersby present vignettes of frustrated connections and emotional numbness as characters search for meaning in art, in language, and in each other. A man waiting for his beloved to cross the street watches as she's struck by a car. A colorless suburban couple makes the long journey from their home to sit in a gay bar and feel exotic. A man leaves an animated intellectual lunch and goes unrecognized by his companion a few minutes later. Throughout, Strauss filters the particulars of everyday existence through his singular sensibility to creating a portrait of contemporary urban society and the artist's place within it.
Reviews
"A voyeur in the crowd, [Strauss] uses this vantage point to reveal the hidden truths and underlying misery of a technologically and historically burdened world." --New York Times Book Review