A collection of 35 spare and concise stories, including 10 heretofore uncollected. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1997.
When a writer named Ilona Lewis loses her much-more-famous novelist-lover to another woman, she finds herself pondering the meaning of love, fame, and death, as well as her complicated feelings for her difficult brother.
Convinced that men run the world, a woman finds meaning only in erotic love. Her son, the only constant in her life, provides her with consolation and a reason to live. Broaching a taboo deeply embedded in the human psyche, this haunting story tells of a woman who sleeps with the bedside lamp lit--waiting for illumination.
Compiled posthumously, Gina Berriault's uncollected writings include five short stories and part of a novel in progress, along with a series of essays that appeared in such publications as Rolling Stone and Hungry Mind Review.
Illustrated by the author (who died in 1997), this brief novel is a parable about a parrot who becomes an opera singer through his amazing powers of mimicry--but then returns to his native rain forest where he uses his gifts to fight for ecological causes.
In the small town that was his home, each of the people in a potential congressional candidate's life--mother, sister, brother, lover--use the events surrounding the scandal that resulted in his suicide in a different way to cope.
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