Inventing the Abbotts
Autor Sue Milleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 ian 1999
The title story is about a young man who takes up successively with three daughters of the most fashionable family in town. In other stories, whose characters range from a young girl in the first blush of sexual curiosity to a stricken dowager whose seizures release a brutal and sometimes obscene candor, Sue Miller presents a compelling gallery of contemporary men and women with hungry hearts and dismayed consciences.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780060929978
ISBN-10: 0060929979
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: HARPERCOLLINS;
Colecția HarperPerennial
ISBN-10: 0060929979
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: HARPERCOLLINS;
Colecția HarperPerennial
Textul de pe ultima copertă
Sue
Miller's
stories
from
a
chapter
in
the
moral
history
of
our
time
Like
Sue
Miller's
bestselling
novels,
this
collection
of
short
stories
explores
the
treacherously
shifting
ground
of
erotic
and
family
relationships
with
deftness
and
depth.
The
title
story
is
about
a
young
man
who
takes
up
successively
with
three
daughters
of
the
most
fashionable
family
in
town.
In
other
stories,
whose
characters
range
from
a
young
girl
in
the
first
blush
of
sexual
curiosity
to
a
stricken
dowager
whose
seizures
release
a
brutal
and
sometimes
obscene
candor,
Sue
Miller
presents
a
compelling
gallery
of
contemporary
men
and
women
with
hungry
hearts
and
dismayed
consciences.
Recenzii
"[Miller's] writing is rich, her perceptions acute." — Newsday
"[Sue Miller] has a genius for understanding sexual behavior, and for transforming it into art." — Hilma Wolitzer
"Compelling...What [Miller] offers...is a distinctive sensibility--a candid exploration of the frail and gritty truths about trying to love without harm or reprisal." — Boston Globe
"Graceful prose and some cleverly kinky twists make for provocative reading." — Los Angeles Times Book Review
"[Sue Miller] has a genius for understanding sexual behavior, and for transforming it into art." — Hilma Wolitzer
"Compelling...What [Miller] offers...is a distinctive sensibility--a candid exploration of the frail and gritty truths about trying to love without harm or reprisal." — Boston Globe
"Graceful prose and some cleverly kinky twists make for provocative reading." — Los Angeles Times Book Review
Notă biografică
Sue Miller is the bestselling author of While I Was Gone, The Distinguished Guest, For Love, Family Pictures, Inventing the Abbotts, and The Good Mother. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.