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An anthology of short fiction explores the complexities and tensions of ordinary moments in life, as it follows the stories of a young woman in Jazz Age New York and a young businessman whose car breaks down in a country town.
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Joanna Scott is the author of 8 previous books, inc. The Manikin, a Pulitzer Prize finalist as well as Various Antidotes and Arrogance, which were both finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Lannan Award, she lives with her family in upstate New York.
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Starred Review. From the formidable imagination of Scott (Pulitzer Prize–finalist The Manikin, etc.) comes a collection of 10 stories that stalk across the 20th century to document love and its consequences. In "Heaven and Hell," a bride and groom seal their vows with a lengthy kiss after he returns home, blind, from WWI. "The Lucite Cane" sees an elderly man navigating a slew of literal and metaphorical modern-day hazards in June 2000. A young Harlem mother abandons her daughter to join a cultlike church in "The Queen of Sheba Is Afraid of Snow." The teenage grifter at the center of "Or Else" travels from New York to Europe and steals from her benefactor. In the title story, a New York advertising executive sent upstate to finalize a contract encounters trouble on his drive home to his wife and baby. Although the characters struggle differently, they are almost all observed by a Paul Bowles–style godless eye-in-the-sky that lays bare human frailty with almost unbearable acuity; the two first-person stories, "Yip" and "Across from the Shannonso," don't convey the same gravitas. But Scott's craft can be breathtaking—and her perceptions uncanny. (Dec. 11)
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0786294868
- ISBN 13 9780786294862
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages372
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