Throw Like A Girl: Stories - Softcover

Thompson, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416541829 ISBN 13: 9781416541820

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2007

Synopsis

A master of short fiction whose "best pieces are as good as it gets in contemporary cction" (Newsday) returns, as Jean Thompson follows her National Book Award finalist collection Who Do You Love with Throw Like a Girl.

Here are twelve new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, arcing from youth to experience. Each one of Thompson's indelible characters -- lovers, wives, friends, and mothers -- speaks her piece -- wry, angry, hopeful -- about the world and women's places in it.

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Review:

Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2007: Not only does this latest collection of short stories from Jean Thompson have one of the best book titles I've come across in recent years, it's also a resonant and refreshingly unromantic portrait of women in every sort of role--ranging from the unpopular girl at school to a woman stuck in traffic to a modern-day Bonnie Parker. Throw Like a Girl is the kind of rare reading experience that makes you catch your breath with recognition as you meet each of these remarkable women, and Jean Thompson's taut, effervescent prose wakes you up to their most intimate details. --Anne Bartholomew

About the Author:

Jean Thompson is a novelist and short story writer. Her works include the novels A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl, She Poured Out Her Heart, The Humanity Project, The Year We Left Home, City Boy, Wide Blue Yonder, The Woman Driver, and My Wisdom and the short story collections The Witch and Other Tales Re-Told, Do Not Deny Me, Throw Like a Girl, Who Do You Love (a National Book Award finalist), Little Face and Other Stories, and The Gasoline Wars. Thompson’s short fiction has been published in many magazines and journals, including the New Yorker, and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. Thompson has been the recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, among other accolades, and has taught creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Reed College, Northwestern University, and other colleges and universities. She lives in Urbana, Illinois.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1416541829
• ISBN 13: 9781416541820
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 291