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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Don't get me wrong, good solid writing here, and clarity too but every single one of these short stories was awful. I was left with a sad sense that no one really cared for others in this world, and that they were all living the sorry lives that discover the grass is not greener on the other side, or still yearning for the 'courage' to leap with the sincere belief that life would be all daisies if they could. Awful. Depressing. Not quite soul-sucking, but on it's way. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Carolyn Cooke's stories have been featured in several volumes of PRIZE STORIES: THE O.HENRY AWARDS and THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES.Her highly anticipated debut collection tells hilarious and often savage truths about people struggling within the confines of history, society, and class.Mr.Sargent, the aging Brahmin aesthete of the title story, scribbles his epiphanies on cocktail napkins and covers them up with his drinks.A Maine innkeeper shoots his wife, who remains bitterly loyal to him until the death of their son.A whole family conspires to keep the birth of yet another dirt-poor relation a secret from his grandmother.On the icy cobblestone streets of Boston and the rockbound coast of Maine, these vividly realized characters try to reconcile habits of obedience and self-reliance with the urgent desire to capture the wild core of life.The result is an explosion of exquisitely tuned voices, as authentic as they are unforgettable. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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