EVANESCENCE: STORIES 1950's - 2000

Borenstein's twelve stories are literary timepieces she fashioned
during fi fty years of writing fi ction. Favoring the decades as
nesting dolls for her interplay of imagination with memory,
she evokes the ever-shifting spirit of the times through the lives of
her characters, creatures of days swift-fl owing from time past through
the evanescent present toward the somedays of an ever-receding
horizon. Shadows of a growing distance from youthful dreams of
invincibility lengthen across "the American century" as it grows
older. Her Afterword celebrates the short story as self-replenishing
for readers journeying on from a once-upon-a-time moment in
American history.