A collection of short works explores the high drama and unintended comedy of domestic life with the stories of a woman whose unexpected pregancy makes her marriage unbearable and an executive who predicts his own downfall. Reprint.
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From Publishers Weekly
Currie's collection of short stories focuses on the highs and lows of domestic life and the real-life dramas of childhood, marriage, parenthood and aging.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This is a thoughtful collection of short stories about domestic dramas by the author of the novel Available Light (LJ 3/1/86). The title story is representative of the whole: a morose young man camps out in the closed-up beach house of his mother-in-law, trying hard to reconnect with his unhappy wife, who fled there when she learned she was pregnant. In "Tib's Eve," set in a boarding school, difficult, forlorn Catherine talks to the janitor who remembers her mother when she was a student there. Doe is a social worker in "The One Without the Parsley Is the One Without Poison," who collects the detritus of her clients' sad lives: abandoned pets and badly crocheted doilies. The stories are well presented, if often too sad. Overall, this is a very good collection.
Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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sharp, witty prose,
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This review is from: Moses Supposes (Hardcover)
Ellen Currie's prose is tight and vivid. The stories are very funny. If you love language, and love to see it crafted well, this book is a treat.
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