Polite Sex: A Novel - Softcover
When Emily and Clara, two young women from Tula Springs, Louisiana, arrive in New York City, they carry with them all the youthful expectancy of a bright future filled with passion and accomplishment. As the years pass and Emily and Clara follow different paths, each discovers in her own way that growing older involves concessions -- and that concessions in love can be the costliest of all.
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A witty and passionately penetrating story that follows 20 years in the lives of two young women from Louisiana searching for success in New York City's limelight.
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James Wilcox is the author of nine novels, including the critically acclaimed "Modern Baptists," His stories have appeared in "The New Yorker," He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is currently a professor of English at Louisiana State University.
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- PublisherBack Bay Books
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0316941344
- ISBN 13 9780316941341
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. With the recent publication of Plain and Normal, James Wilcox's first book in five years . with Back Bay's fall 1998 release of a new trade paperback edition of Wilcox's comic masterpiece, Modern Baptists (which Anne Tyler hailed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, which Toni Morrison counts as one of her favorite books by unsung writers, which Harold Bloom has elected to the canon of enduring twentieth-century American literature) . and now with this new trade paperback edition of Wilcox's highly acclaimed Polite Sex, the story of two young women from Tula Springs, Louisiana, who seek fame and fortune in New York City .readers everywhere are discovering the special pleasures of Wilcox's tender and hilarious comic fiction. When Emily and Clara, two young women from Tula Springs, Louisiana, arrive in New York City, they carry with them all the youthful expectancy of a bright future filled with passion and accomplishment. As the years pass and Emily and Clara follow different paths, each discovers in her own way that growing older involves concessions — and that concessions in love can be the costliest of all. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780316941341
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