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Starred Review. Hardened but not compromised by adult life, these 12 luminous stories from former National Book Critics Circle director Bingham (Transgressions) feature narrators who find mature, often solitary forms of reckoning, and even happiness. The four-time married mother of a successful novelist in A Gift for Burning justifies to an interviewer everything from her selections for stand-in fathers to enabling her son's substance abuse—all, she admits, because she was too distracted at the time to pay much attention to him. That Winter imagines a lone woman writer of no particular age braving it out in isolated southern Colorado until an emergency brings the welcome warmth, and gradual love, of an undemanding stranger. Several of the stories are set in France, such as Sagesse, which involves an American family vacationing in Normandy at the close of the WWII. Yet the most exotic locale remains the quiet neighborhood in sunny Florida of the title story, where the eponymous red '65 Pontiac convertible rests at the curb after innumerable changes in ownership over the years, telling the story of the end of a marriage. There is not a false note in Bingham's striking collection. (Apr.)
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A vibrant collection of 12 stories from Bingham (Transgressions, 2002) offers a diverse group of characters, some more impenitent than others, who realize and probe their need to thrive in life, love, and relationships both familial and romantic. In “That Winter,” an isolated writer living in a spare cabin during a harsh Colorado winter finds herself tangled, at first unwillingly, in an unexpected medical emergency, and soon discovers a cure for her inherent loneliness through the affections of a mysterious guest. In “His Sons,” Caroline accompanies her boyfriend, Tom, on a weekend trip to the country with his two young sons. As she balances on the precipice between girlfriend and loathed rival to the boys’ mother, she gently begins to unravel the complexity of a delicate father-and-son relationship. The elegiac “Sweet Peas” sublimely captures the moment one couple’s courtship dissolves during a summer trip to France. These engaging tales span landscape, gender, and age, and readers will treasure Bingham’s strikingly perceptive composition and refined, clever flashes of detail and clarity. --Leah Strauss
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Starred Review. Hardened but not compromised by adult life, these 12 luminous stories from former National Book Critics Circle director Bingham (Transgressions) feature narrators who find mature, often solitary forms of reckoning, and even happiness. The four-time married mother of a successful novelist in A Gift for Burning justifies to an interviewer everything from her selections for stand-in fathers to enabling her son's substance abuse—all, she admits, because she was too distracted at the time to pay much attention to him. That Winter imagines a lone woman writer of no particular age braving it out in isolated southern Colorado until an emergency brings the welcome warmth, and gradual love, of an undemanding stranger. Several of the stories are set in France, such as Sagesse, which involves an American family vacationing in Normandy at the close of the WWII. Yet the most exotic locale remains the quiet neighborhood in sunny Florida of the title story, where the eponymous red '65 Pontiac convertible rests at the curb after innumerable changes in ownership over the years, telling the story of the end of a marriage. There is not a false note in Bingham's striking collection. (Apr.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
A vibrant collection of 12 stories from Bingham (Transgressions, 2002) offers a diverse group of characters, some more impenitent than others, who realize and probe their need to thrive in life, love, and relationships both familial and romantic. In “That Winter,” an isolated writer living in a spare cabin during a harsh Colorado winter finds herself tangled, at first unwillingly, in an unexpected medical emergency, and soon discovers a cure for her inherent loneliness through the affections of a mysterious guest. In “His Sons,” Caroline accompanies her boyfriend, Tom, on a weekend trip to the country with his two young sons. As she balances on the precipice between girlfriend and loathed rival to the boys’ mother, she gently begins to unravel the complexity of a delicate father-and-son relationship. The elegiac “Sweet Peas” sublimely captures the moment one couple’s courtship dissolves during a summer trip to France. These engaging tales span landscape, gender, and age, and readers will treasure Bingham’s strikingly perceptive composition and refined, clever flashes of detail and clarity. --Leah Strauss
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