Wake - Couverture souple

Goldner, Beth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1582432694 ISBN 13 : 9781582432694

Editeur : Catapult, 2003

Synopsis

In her first collection of short stories, Beth Goldner looks at loss-of love, of health, of life-through the lives of ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances.

The women of Wake are suffering--or have suffered--a profound loss, loss that has left them seeking renewal or perhaps just escape. Sometimes they long for a husband, a baby, a trinket, sometimes for something far more elusive.

In the title story, two sisters are slowly losing their parents to mental illness. In "Cardiff-by-the-Sea," a man who lost his sight in Vietnam is reborn through a new relationship with a daughter he didn't know he had. In "Plan B," a woman loses her husband to an affair with a much younger woman-and loses her grip on sanity at the same time. In "Outcomes," we meet a hospice worker who steals an inconsequential token from the patients she watches die, her own strange, unethical, but intimate ritual to the life cycle. This bravura performance from a fresh literary voice, bringing together a diversity of characters in various stages of life, will touch and surprise readers as it reveals some of life's smallest but most rewarding possibilities.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Beth Goldner's stories have appeared in the Missouri Review, the Massachusetts Review, the Blue Mesa Review, Story Quarterly, and Literal Latté, and her work has been nominated for numerous awards. She is a managing editor for a health and medical sciences publisher in Philadelphia. She lives in Narberth, Pennsylvania.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Catapult
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1582432694
• ISBN 13: 9781582432694
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible