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A collection of short stories take place in New York City, the former East Germany, and Virginia, and are set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, the Kennedy era, the destruction of the Berlin Wall, and the renovation of Ellis Island. Original. IP.

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Binnie Kirshenbaum is the author of An Almost Perfect Moment, On Mermaid Avenue, A Disturbance in One Place, Pure Poetry, Hester Among the Ruins, and History on a Personal Note. She is a professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts, where she is chair of the Graduate Writing Program.

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Kirshenbaum has a strong moral aptitude and a ballistic sense of humor, launching anti-assumption rockets with cool precision. Her targets are the bland sentimentalities of romance and unexamined family life, the blank-eyed acceptance of prejudice, and the superficial presumptions of sexism. In this set of poignant and piquant short stories, Kirshenbaum explores the interface of grand events and ordinary lives, particularly the lives of women. Several stories, including the title story, revolve around the friendship of the narrator, a New York Jew, and Lorraine, an eccentric Southerner, and examine such things as the reunification of Germany, the brief reign of the Kennedys, and the anemia of TV's Mayberry. In other tales, Kirshenbaum's women want, truly, to be alone and free of clinging men and children. Her candor about the female psyche is not unlike Margaret Atwood's, but her feisty voice, gutsy humor, mischievous dispassion, and gift for setting scenes and conjuring moments of realization are all her own. Her last novel, Disturbance in One Place (1994), was widely praised. Donna Seaman

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  • PublisherFromm Intl
  • Publication date1995
  • ISBN 10 088064169X
  • ISBN 13 9780880641692
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  • Number of pages178
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