May you live in interesting times / Tereze Glück.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glück, Tereze, 1945-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Iowa short fiction award

The Iowa short fiction award

Language:

English

Genre:

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 163 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City, Ia. : University of Iowa Press, 1995.

Summary:

Obsession, adultery, infidelity, unrequited love, suicide, betrayal, death - Tereze Gluck's clear-sighted characters coolly assess their actions and reactions. When a man's wife dies suddenly, he feels liberated, and learning this stuns him. Taking a leap into personhood, a child watching her mother in the garden experiences empathy. A woman addicted to a lover realizes how she has squandered herself. A kiss in a taxicab sets two people on the road to inevitability. Scars, even small ones, reflect the power and mystery of the roads people take from one life into another. In the intense title story, suicide, long-distance love, and a cat's nine lives overshadow a woman's subterranean life.

Notes:

"The Iowa Short Fiction Award and John Simmons Short Fiction Award Winners": [2] p. at end.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0877455198

OCLC:

32590950