Tiny Ladies (High Risk Books) - Softcover

Klein, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852424044 ISBN 13: 9781852424046

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 2003

Synopsis

Carrie hasn't always made the best decisions in her life. But her affair with Victor, one of her clients when she worked as a caseworker in San Francisco, had disastrous results. Years later, handling cases in the frozen winters of the Mid-West, Carrie is assigned Hannah as a client. Meeting Hannah gives Carrie new strength; strength she will need if Victor ever comes back for revenge.

Tiny Ladies is a stark and suspenseful novel about remorse, the ironies of intervention and the terrible courage it sometimes takes to start again.

Adam Klein's work has appeared in Men on Men 5 and BOMB magazine. He lives in San Francisco.

About this title

About the Author:

Adam Klein studied creative writing at the University of Iowa and San Francisco State University. His work has appeared in Men on Men 5 and BOMB magazine. He is also a musician, recording and performing with his band, Roman Evening. He lives in San Francisco.

Review:

?The writing is often brutally exquisite. Carrie?s numbered despair is very skillfully rendered, and the gradually accreting structure of the numerous flashback scenes carry an impressive raw emotional charge? Kirkus Reviews ?Klein?s delicate yet steely prose captures the complexities of fractured lives, while spinning a captivating yarn. An original and impressive slice of dark Americana? Big Issue ?One of the most disturbing and arresting books I have come across in some time... In muted and almost musical prose, eerily suspenseful but miraculously lacking in melodrama, Adam Klein?s novel charts the life of a strangely sympathetic character attempting to survive herself and her circumstances... [an] engrossing and beautifully written book? Observer

About this edition

• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1852424044
• ISBN 13: 9781852424046
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224