A pristine book that has a deft two line gift inscription at top edge of front free endpaper, else fine. Ranging across a uniquely American landscape, from rural Idaho and suburban Arizona to downtown Boston, these eleven stories explore with painful lyricism the harsh awakenings of adolescence: eroticism and hypocrisy, love and violence, responsibility and guilt, adult inconstancy and the random cruelty of life and death. "Melanie Rae Thon belts out her short stories in a tone and style reminiscent of classic blues singers. The reader is swept along not only by Ms. Thon's remarkable characterizations but also by the taut, magic current of her prose, which carries an exhilarating rhythmic punch." -- The New York Times Book Review. Winner of a 1997 Whiting Writers'Award. One of Granta's "Best Young American Novelists".

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Title: GIRLS IN THE GRASS: STORIES
Publisher: Random House, New York
Publication Date: 1991
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0394576632
ISBN 13: 9780394576633
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Near Fine+
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Ranging from rural Idaho to suburban Arizona and downtown Boston, eleven stories offer an insightful, poignant study of American dreams, illusions, revelations, and relationships

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In these 11 stories, whose settings range from Boston to suburban Arizona to rural Idaho, Thon captures her characters at a moment of sudden revelation. She portrays young men and women edging warily from adolescence to adulthood. Whether they are fearful of or eager for adult reality, they are pushed by circumstances beyond their control into new ways of perceiving themselves. In the title story, a young girl discovers she has outgrown the games of childhood. "Sisters" is a story of the ambivalent love that binds two sisters, one of whom resentfully assumes the burdens her wild and irresponsible sister refuses. Pushed to her limit, she finally realizes that she can never break the bond that binds them. In "Small Crimes," a middle-aged poet fails in the seduction of a young woman, and this failure forces him to confront a painful failure in his past. Thon writes with sympathy and authenticity about recognizable situations that confront us all.
- Marcia Tager, Tenafly, N.J.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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