Curtain Calls - Couverture souple

Mathias-Riegel, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1490320261 ISBN 13 : 9781490320267

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

The twelve stories in Curtain Calls are about love, loss, aloneness and self-discovery told from the view of the very young to the elderly. No matter how heart-tugging the stories may be, there is always the redeeming element of humor. A widow meets her lover during a bank robbery; a nine-year-old confesses to the parish priest her fear she is going to murder someone; a man in his 80's learns that his buddy in assisted living is planning his wife's mercy killing; after hitting a deer, a woman's car catapults into a dark parkway where no one can hear her cries for help; a bored, stay-at-home young mother plots to attract her neighbor, a soldier recently back from the battlefield; a middle-aged bride's obsessions come vicariously close to spoiling her honeymoon in Portugal. In the last story, "Curtain Calls" a once-glamourous Pop singer faces her nineties without her lover, a man who had lived life to the fullest.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Award-winning Washington writer, Barbara Mathias-Riegel, wrote features on family, social trends and psychology forover 30 years under the byline of Barbara Mathias. Her features appeared in numerous publications, including the Washington Post, L.A. Times Synciate, Journal Newspapers, Modern Maturity (AARP) USNWR College Issue, Family Therapy Networker, and PRISM Magazine (ASEE). She is the author of Between Sisters: Secret Rivals, Intimate Friends (Delacorte, 1992); and the co-author of 40 Ways to Raise a Nonracist Child (HarperPerennial, 1996), currently an e-book. The author lives in Washington, DC with her husband, Dick Riegel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1490320261
• ISBN 13: 9781490320267
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible