An anthology of short stories that originally appeared in Playboy magazine presents tales by Bashevis Singer, Gordimer, Garci+a7a Ma+a7rquez, Nabokov, Borges, Malamud, Shaw, Updike, Tom McGuane, Corraghessan Boyle, and others. 25,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
That Playboy has always showcased first-rate mainstream fiction is evident from this superlative anthology of stories by Bernard Malamud, Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac, Andre Dubus, Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas McGuane, John Cheever, James Baldwin, Isaac Bashevis Singer and others. Sex, when it occurs here, is often an arena of hazard or negotiation, as in Paul Theroux's prickly tale of a wealthy young Bostonian out for erotic adventure in Africa; or T. Coraghessan Boyle's ultimate satire of safe sex featuring an obsessive magazine editor who insists that her lover wear a full-body condom. Another human constant, death, pervades John Updike's account of smug tourists visiting an Egyptian necropolis and Vladimir Nabokov's witty tale of a seduction on a train. Women, though a decided minority, are represented by Joyce Carol Oates's withering portrait of American academics transplanted to Canada amid the 1960s counterculture; Nadine Gordimer's powerful tale of an Afrikaner farmer's disposal of the corpse of a black man; Laurie Colwin's disarmingly direct narrative of an adulterer; and pieces by Shirley Jackson, Bharati Mukherjee and Ursula LeGuin. Playboy fiction editor Turner has pulled together a smart anthology that constantly entertains and provokes.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Do not stare coldly at this collection and speculate that patrons who borrow it have Playboy rear-view mirror air fresheners in their cars and neo-Mediterranean waterbeds at home. This collection proves that there really were "good articles" in the magazine in addition to the other, uh, things. The 41 stories are by a heady list of good writers most of us have heard of (e.g., Malamud, Roth, Kerouac, Mailer, Heller, Bradbury) and a few we've not. The magazine usually expects a mischievous joie de vivre quality in its commissioned writings, but this precocious crew will not be contained, and so there is a world of variegated blisses here. A few of these stories are hard to find outside of the magazine's issues. And Playboy is certainly concerned that it be a matter of open stacks record that these undeniable literary works were introduced in their get-no-respect pages. That's the sort of cause we librarians can get behind. Recommended.
- Brian Geary, West Seneca, N.Y.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Brian Geary, West Seneca, N.Y.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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