Personal Velocity - Hardcover

Miller, Rebecca

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080211699X ISBN 13: 9780802116994

Publisher: Grove Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Short stories examine the varied lives of women of different ages and classes as they deal with fate, motherhood, infidelity, desperation, and other challenges of life.

About this title

Review:

Rebecca Miller's Personal Velocity offers a wry take on work, sex, and relationships in the lives of seven people in search of what it means to be a 21st-century woman. Sharp and intimate, these stories are a capsule wardrobe of contemporary American femininity, from off-the-peg urban identities prepackaged by a designer label to battered, homeless survivors whose lives are held together only by their own emotional stamina. Greta, a cookbook editor, dumps her husband for fame and pointy alligator flats; Louisa, an artist, squeezes out her lovers faster than paint from a tube; and pregnant Paula picks up a young hitchhiker on a rainy night.

Miller brings a clear and unsentimental eye to her characters, and pleasing brevity of style and compressed drama to her prose. Flawed and admirable, terrified and fearless, cavalier and overanxious by turns--the vagaries of personality are encompassed in this poised debut. Many a reader may catch a fleeting glimpse of her own contradictory reflections in Miller's intense snapshots of modern women. --Rachel Holmes, Amazon.co.uk

About the Author:

Rebecca Miller is a filmmaker. Her feature film, Angela, released in 1996, won the Filmmakers Trophy and the Cinematography Award at the Sundance Film Festival and the IFT Gotham Prize. Personal Velocity is her first book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 080211699X
• ISBN 13: 9780802116994
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160