Many of the short stories in Swimming Lessons have appeared in slightly different versions in literary journals; some, including the title story, have won awards in contests sponsored by these journals and other organizations. The two stories in the last section, KADDISH and THE BOX, are inspired by true happenings. The others are fiction.
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Marci Stillerman has been publishing short stories in literary journals and stories and poetry in leading children's publications including Highlights and the Cricket Group of children's magazines since moving to Los Angeles from Chicago in 1987. Her picture book for ages 7 to adult, NINE SPOONS A CHANUKAH STORY, now in its seventh printing, won the Sydney Taylor Award and was selected as a First Pick by U S NEWS AND WORLD REPORT. Ms. Stillerman is now compiling a second collection of stories. She and her husband live in Los Angeles and in Rancho Mirage.
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Marci Stillerman is a superb writer. These stories are sometimes fullsome, mostly spare, and always pithy, textured, and cutting to the heart of things. Intensely moving. Masterful. Wow!
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Marci Stillerman's short story collection, Swimming Lessons, is not only remarkable for its spare, intuitive style, but for the sheer scope and diversity of subject matter. The reader begins to wonder how such a panorama of characters, settings and themes can come from one mind, and by the last story, we are left thinking, what a mind! What insight into the human condition!The characters in Swimming Lessons offer a full spectrum of gender, age, race, class and culture. Welfare mothers and waitresses, a successful lesbian author, the homeless, the mentally impaired, middle class families in varying degrees of dysfunction, a young Jewish girl struggling to determine her own future, a homosexual soldier facing the horrors of war. The orthodox versus unorthodox throughout. Then, when we think we've covered every possibility, some of her most powerful stories are about animals, a German shepherd defying his Nazi training, a mother polar bear protecting her cub, a reddish stray dog trying to heal a family. Through her masterful use of detail, it all works. Swimming Lessons is the perfect title, for in Marci Stillerman's impressive work, we indeed swim in all the wayward currents of life. - Kathryn Jordan, Author of HOT WATER A Novel - Berkley/Penguin, 2006
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Baby Mouse, Black Arrow, Kessler Strasse, Raggedy Ann, Jason Nes, Breezy Point, Los Angeles, Maxine March, Rabbi Silver, Song of Songs, Atlantic City, Justine Cormorant, Orthodox Jewish New!
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Baby Mouse, Black Arrow, Kessler Strasse, Raggedy Ann, Jason Nes, Breezy Point, Los Angeles, Maxine March, Rabbi Silver, Song of Songs, Atlantic City, Justine Cormorant, Orthodox Jewish New!
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