About this title: 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.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Counterpoint
Date Published: 1997-05-01
ISBN-13:9781887178389ISBN:1887178384
Description: Good. Paperbacks are previously owned. They are all in readable condition. They may have previous owners stamps, labels or names written or on them. The covers and spine may have creasing from previously being read. The corners may be bumped and there may be a small number of bent pages. Older books may have fading/discoloration due to light exposure. * read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Counterpoint
Date Published: 05/01/1997
ISBN-13:9781887178389ISBN:1887178384
Description: Good. 1887178384 Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories-Used book in Good Condition. Binding Good. Shows wear from use. Text is 99% clean. Ownerís Name. Binding: Paperback ISBN13: 9781887178389 Size: 6 x 9 x 1.1 in. We are professional and prompt. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Counterpoint
Date Published: 1997-05-01
ISBN-13:9781887178389ISBN:1887178384
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Description: Fine. New and Selected stories, considered emotionally precise. The surprise winner of both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. read more
"The style in which she writes has a tendency to blur the stories and their individual traumas together. Lyrical, but flowery and self-consciously tragic."
""Things come and go. I figure they go more often than they come. Not much came my way but I lost more than I had. If you see what I mean." {from "The Overcoat"}
"How could a man change like that? His entire body aware of her, even the soles of his feet against her feet, and then be that person no more? And why was it she could not tell anybody of what it did to her, though it sat day and night in her mind?" {from "Myra"}
I have an uncanny knack for picking things to read that mirror my emotions. Perhaps, when I bought this book years ago in Colorado but haven't read until now, I had read the dust jacket and knew that this collection of short stories are about people dealing with loss and the effects that lost has had on them for the rest of their lives. So unconsciously, perhaps, I decided to read this book now to get a sense of how lonely creatures deal with the fact that for a short time they were a little less lonely, only to come back to the fact that they will remain lonely for the rest of their lives, even if they surround themselves again with people and animals in an effort to trump the loneliness they are bound to travel life with. Loneliness. Reading about how you're not the first and won't be the last person to feel this wrenching pain doesn't help coping with it any better."
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