The School of Love: Short Stories - Hardcover

Barber, Phyllis

9780874803372: The School of Love: Short Stories

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874803373 ISBN 13: 9780874803372

Publisher: Univ of Utah Pr, 1990

Presents a collection of stories peopled by individuals searching for love, who put the best face on reality, who deny reality, or create it anew with the lovers they find

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From Publishers Weekly:

Barber's best stories are cleverly compacted; her worst, most glaringly three short-shorts, for all their magic realism, are dated and simplistic. In "Silver Dollars" a daughter learns to accept her father's costly lack of ambition, while "Tangles" portrays a young woman who seeks her identity in a preoccupied father's eyes. The fa ther in "Oh, Say, Can you See?" takes his family to observe a nuclear test blast.too many story summaries...mc Right!sss In "Baby Birds" a mother tries to connect with her drugged-out son. While "Criminal Justice" turns from relentless to cheapshot on the false detail of a jailed woman allowed numerous phone calls, "Love Story for Miriam," about a parasitically dependent great-aunt, resonates. Though quality is uneven and many of Barber's characters seem more symbolic than real, her first collection contains memorable moments: the image of sunlight feeding on a rug's flowered wool; a child in a "scratch and bite nursery school."
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