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Edge of Marriage: Stories [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 192 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 203x133x11 mm, weight: 454 g
  • Serija: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Mar-2010
  • Leidėjas: University of Georgia Press
  • ISBN-10: 0820335177
  • ISBN-13: 9780820335179
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 192 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 203x133x11 mm, weight: 454 g
  • Serija: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Mar-2010
  • Leidėjas: University of Georgia Press
  • ISBN-10: 0820335177
  • ISBN-13: 9780820335179
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Raktažodžiai:
The characters in this extraordinary debut collection fi nd themselves caught between commitment and responsibility. In one story, a wife struggles to care for her adulterous husband after a car accident. In another, a husband finds himself drawn to his wife's former lover. In language that is eloquent and precise, these stories speak to the mysteries of friendship and marriage. This startling and powerful collection is illuminated by keen insight and hope.

Recenzijos

Reading these stories is like watching a window shatter in silencewe become mesmerized by the stark beauty of disintegration. -- New Yorker Graceful, accomplished prose. -- New York Times Book Review The Edge of Marriage introduces a remarkable new writer. -- Annie Dillard Tough-minded reports from the marital frontlines . . . A precisely observant collection, unsparing, original, and resonant. -- Kirkus Reviews Like the tightly crafted stories of Raymond Carver and pre-postmodern Flannery OConnor . . . Kaplans disquieting stories are a confluence of emotive narration, precisely placed dialogue, and shadowed imagery. -- Austin Chronicle

HESTER KAPLAN is the author of the novels The Tell and Kinship Theory and of the short story collections Unravished and The Edge of Marriage. Her short fiction and nonfiction has been widely published and anthologized, including in the Best American Short Stories series. She is a recipient of an NEA fellowship, several state arts council grants, the McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Nonfiction, and the Salamander Fiction Prize, among others awards. She is cofounder of Goat Hill Writers and is on the faculty of Lesley Universitys MFA Program in Creative Writing. She lives in Rhode Island.