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Female Trouble

Stories

By Antonya Nelson

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| Paperback | 9780743218726

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Female Trouble features thirteen wise, funny, and startlingly perceptive stories about the vagaries and revelations of womanhood. Named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best writers of her generation, Antonya Nelson explores the broad notion of family from myriad angles in Continue

Female Trouble features thirteen wise, funny, and startlingly perceptive stories about the vagaries and revelations of womanhood. Named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best writers of her generation, Antonya Nelson explores the broad notion of family from myriad angles in Female Trouble. Set in the vividly rendered Midwest, these moving stories are dark and honest portraits of people in moral quandaries, gray areas, unclear circumstances -- from the three-timing thirty-year-old man of the title story to the divorced mother of a turbulent teen in "Incognito" to the sexually adventurous daughter of an adulterous mother in "Stitches." With Female Trouble, Nelson has created a cast of memorable characters who reveal us to ourselves with disturbing clarity and conscience.

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  • Female Trouble By Antonya Nelson

    The many collections of short stories that are arriving in time for summer reading are an indication that the genre is not just alive and well, it's thriving. And for readers who long ago tired of the kind of postmodern, ironic stories that usurped t ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 256 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0743218728
  • ISBN-13: 9780743218726
  • Publisher: Scribner
  • Pub date: Apr 01, 2003
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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