Obscene Gestures For Women - Hardcover
Fifteen short stories chronicle the struggles of proud, indomitable women to preserve their humanity and dignity in the face of ceaseless erosion of moral stability
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The best of these 15 very short stories by the author of Places in the World a Woman Could Walk are prose poems. Observed by one man, a flock of women gathers in a stubble field, a silent force waiting to speak. A one-legged woman invents a board game where players roll dice and spin an arrow at random words, hoping to form sentences. In the least successful stories, connections are forced (a woman is nominated, no one says for what, so another responds by gutting chickens) and characters talk in literary prose without benefit of quotation marks, as if speech, objects, people, actions, grass, sky and trees are seamless. Ultimately, the lack of discernable plots or deeply realized characters is a handicap the stories cannot surmount. Other than a few instants of crystallized perception, very little occurs here, and the sameness of tone becomes wearisome.
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In these 15 stories, Kauffman presents a quirky panoply of characters: a woman who grinds her teeth, a book burner with a megaphone, two farmers who ride a combine at night. Kauffman's language is rich, sensual. She has a poet's ear for metaphor and a pragmatic view of modern life: husbands take lovers, the environment is being ravaged, but still there is joy in the moment. Ultimately, Kauffman writes best when considering life's contradictions. The stories are short, several no more than sketches that could have been left out, but the author's exquisite use of language, her whimsical humor, and her philosophy of life--"Some passion, some ease. The knowledge of terror, but no terror"--keep the reader absorbed.
- Doris Lynch, Oakland P.L., Cal.
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- Doris Lynch, Oakland P.L., Cal.
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- PublisherKnopf
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0394574117
- ISBN 13 9780394574110
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages109
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Obscene Gestures for Women
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