Throw Like A Girl

Stories

AvJean Thompson

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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A New York Times Notable Book | San Francisco Chronical Best Book of the Year A master of short fiction whose "best pieces are as good as it gets in contemporary fiction" (Newsday) returns, as Jean Thompson follows her National Book Award finalist collection Who Do You Love with Throw Like a Girl.Here are twelve new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, arcing from youth to experience. Each one of Thompson's indelible characters—lovers, wives, friends, and mothers—speaks her piece—wry, angry, hopeful—about the world and women's places in it. This collection includes the following short stories:“The Brat”“The Five Senses”“It Would Not Make Me Tremble to See Ten Thousand Fall”“The Family Barcus”“Lost”“The Inside Passage”“Holy Week”“A Normal Life”“Hunger”“The Woman Taken in Adultery”“Pie of the Month”“Throw Like a Girl”

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Utgivningsdatum:2007-06-05
Mått:140 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt:322 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:No Series
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Simon & Schuster
ISBN:9781416541820

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Jean Thompson is a novelist and short story writer. Her works include the novels A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl, She Poured Out Her Heart, The Humanity Project, The Year We Left Home, City Boy, Wide Blue Yonder, The Woman Driver, and My Wisdom and the short story collections The Witch and Other Tales Re-Told, Do Not Deny Me, Throw Like a Girl, Who Do You Love (a National Book Award finalist), Little Face and Other Stories, and The Gasoline Wars. Thompson’s short fiction has been published in many magazines and journals, including the New Yorker, and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. Thompson has been the recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, among other accolades, and has taught creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Reed College, Northwestern University, and other colleges and universities. She lives in Urbana, Illinois.

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"If there are 'Jean Thompson characters,' they're us, and never have we been so articulate and worthy of compassion. These stories concrm that no one is beneath her interest, or beyond her sure and seemingly limitless reach." -- David Sedaris