Spirit Seizures: Stories

Melissa Pritchard. Collier Books, $8.95 (182pp) ISBN 978-0-02-036070-4

``Restless souls and wrestling spirits are motivating combinations in the characters perceived with uncommon acuity '' in these 17 stories by a winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction. ``In the many voices heard, sane or obsessed, a wavering reality is reflected,'' commented PW. (May)

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