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Where You Find It

Autor Janice Galloway
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 sep 2007
"VALENTINE'S DAY MAKES ME EMBARRASSED," writes Janice Galloway in the opening lines of Where You Find It. The collection deals with love in its many guises -- the way relationships suddenly turn; how a look, a gesture, a word can heal or hurt. Love in Galloway's world is more likely to resemble a heart-shaped ham sandwich than the flowers and chocolates that bear the standard in more traditional "love stories."In the manner of Lorrie Moore and Raymond Carver, Galloway's tales explore the psychological aspects of love and the overpowering yearning to communicate. Whether it's the title piece, which tells of a prostitute's passion for her pimp's kisses, or "Valentine," in which a celebratory evening is undermined by minor disappointments and misunderstandings, the stories that comprise Where You Find It assume that powerful feelings always contain a dimension of disturbance.Upon the collection's much-lauded publication in the United Kingdom, one reviewer was moved to predict that Janice Galloway "will certainly end up in anthologies: not Best Scottish Writers or Best Women Writers, but, quite simply, best."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781416578420
ISBN-10: 1416578420
Pagini: 244
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:07000
Editura: Simon&Schuster

Descriere

From the Scottish author of "Foreign Parts" comes a collection of short stories that gazes unflinchingly at the struggle to love against the odds.

Cuprins

Contents

acknowledgments

further acknowledgments

valentine

where you find it

sonata form

a night in

test

after the rains

waiting for marilyn

hope

bisex

peeping tom

baby-sitting

someone had to

a proper respect

the bridge

tourists from the south arrive in the independent state

he dreams of pleasing his mother

last thing

not flu

proposal

six horses

Notă biografică

Janice Galloway's first novel, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, was published in 1990 and won the MIND/Allen Lane Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel and Scottish First Book. A story from her second book, Blood, won the Cosmopolitan/Perrier Short Story Award. Her second novel, Foreign Parts, won the McVitie's Prize in 1994, the same year she won the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award. She lives in Glasgow.