Bummer: And Other Stories - Couverture souple

Shapiro, Janice

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1593762968 ISBN 13 : 9781593762964

Editeur : Catapult, 2010

Synopsis

A clever and engaging collection of “darkly funny, sexy, and very smart” stories about women on the brink of disaster—and the edge of grace (Tom Perrotta).

The women featured in these stories have one thing in common: They’re all having a terrible day. There’s the housewife so entranced by the pristine order of her neighbor’s belongings that she can’t stop herself from breaking into their home. There’s the mother easing her young son through the trauma of a murder, suddenly confronted with the reappearance of his father. There’s the middle-aged woman stuck in a coffee-chain job alongside snotty college kids, the talent manager supervising a corral of misguided young stars, and the spiky-haired artist who literally dumps her slacker fiance—from a moving car—before engaging in an ill-advised fling in Vegas.

Janice Shapiro has created a cast of utterly distinct outsiders, yet her earthy warmth and asymmetrical humor ring through them all. Her gift for pitch-perfect dialogue—along with her instinctual ease in writing about such fraught topics as commercial sex, death, and the everyday tragedies of growing older—makes her voice one to be relished: tough-minded, sardonic, intimate, and free.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Janice Shapiro is the author of Bummer and Other Stories. Her stories and comics have been published in The North American Review, 52 Stories, The Santa Monica Review, Everyday Genius, and Real Pants, among others. Janice’s graphic essay on her childhood crush on John Lennon appears in the anthology Crush. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Catapult
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1593762968
• ISBN 13: 9781593762964
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible