The Life of Thomas

• Main Author: Elberfeld, Mark
• Format: Others
• Published: Digital Archive @ GSU 2012
• Subjects: short stories; short-shorts; mock-autobiography
• Online Access: http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/141; http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1142&context=english_theses

In this collection of linked stories and shorts, the narrator reflects on important people and events in his life, particularly his high school and college years, primarily through first and second person points of view. The stories “Joanna” and “Honor Roll” are first-person narratives, while “Mr. Finethreads” is told from the third person. “Pictures from a Wedding” and “College | Collage” are considered modular fiction, which create a mock-autobiography out of the disparate pieces of the overall mosaic.