Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories
by Gina Berriault
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Thirty-five stories. In The Stone Boy, a boy becomes a different person after accidentally killing his brother, The Infinite Passage of Expectation is on an unfulfilled romance between a girl and a septuagenarian, and A Dream of Fair Women is on cheating in marriage.Tags
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A well-written collection of thirty-five stories about women. One reviewer calls them “tautly emotional, acutely intelligent, and, ultimately, humane.” The endings are never happy, and reading them was sometimes exhausting. Yet there is hope and courage to be found in each of them, amidst the suffering and disappointments that are part of the human condition.
Have only read the first and title story so far, which is hilarious and moving. Look forward to reading the others.
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Gina/Berriault Women's fiction writer Gina Berriault has written The Lights of the Earth and Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories, which won the Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California, the 1996 National Book Club Critics Award for Fiction, and the 1997PEN/Faulkner Award. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- 1996
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