Red Car: Stories - Softcover

Bingham, Sallie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932511601 ISBN 13: 9781932511604

Publisher: Sarabande Books, 2008

Synopsis

“[Sallie] Bingham writes with an austere and unerring knowledge of what it is to be human and transgressive.”—Paula Fox

“Restrained and wise, these lovely stories unfold like lavender-scented linens, quieting the fretful mind.”—Joe Ashby Porter

Forty-year veteran of the novel, noted feminist, and author of over ten books, Sallie Bingham returns with Red Car, a collection written in her signature style—discreet, sly prose circling taboo subjects. Her new offering is about love enjoyed, whether alone or with lovers, sensual or familial, comedic or tragic, often with a wry twist.

Sallie Bingham lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

About this title

About the Author:

Bingham's first novel was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1961. Since, she has published four collections of short stories (including Transgressions, Sarabande, 2002), four novels, and a memoir. She was Book Editor for The Courier-Journal in Louisville and has been a director of the National Book Critics Circle. She is the founder of The Kentucky Foundation for Women.

From Publishers Weekly:

Starred Review. Hardened but not compromised by adult life, these 12 luminous stories from former National Book Critics Circle director Bingham (Transgressions) feature narrators who find mature, often solitary forms of reckoning, and even happiness. The four-time married mother of a successful novelist in A Gift for Burning justifies to an interviewer everything from her selections for stand-in fathers to enabling her son's substance abuse—all, she admits, because she was too distracted at the time to pay much attention to him. That Winter imagines a lone woman writer of no particular age braving it out in isolated southern Colorado until an emergency brings the welcome warmth, and gradual love, of an undemanding stranger. Several of the stories are set in France, such as Sagesse, which involves an American family vacationing in Normandy at the close of the WWII. Yet the most exotic locale remains the quiet neighborhood in sunny Florida of the title story, where the eponymous red '65 Pontiac convertible rests at the curb after innumerable changes in ownership over the years, telling the story of the end of a marriage. There is not a false note in Bingham's striking collection. (Apr.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1932511601
• ISBN 13: 9781932511604
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 181