The sweetheart is in : stories / S.L. Wisenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wisenberg, S. L. (Sandi L.)

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xi, 137 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : TriQuarterly Books, 2001.

Summary:

The yearnings of a little sister, the hazy memories of a concentration camp liberator, and the romantic entanglements of political activists are portrayed in The Sweetheart Is In, S.L. Wisenberg's first collection of short stories. Each of these edgy, lyrical stories creates its own universe in the space of a few pages even while overlapping characters and themes. The award-winning title story captures the longings, personal and political, of a sensitive girl on the cusp of adolescence as she tries to find her place in the world-and within her self-contained Jewish community in Houston-during the Vietnam era. Wisenberg also reveals a mischievous side when she retells well-known fairy tales in a darkly whimsical fashion. Wisenberg's work is part of today's renaissance in Jewish storytelling. Many of her characters are forced to navigate between doubt and faith but fortunately equipped with humor and wisdom.

Contents:

Big Ruthie Imagines Sex without Pain 3

The Sweetheart Is In 8

Liberator 25

Pageant 34

Brunch 40

Love 44

Living with Moranza 57

The Crab 66

The Children Who Swim from You 70

The Window of Vulnerability 73

The Average Man 79

The Last Day of the World 82

Sheets 86

Rose in Her Backyard 88

In the Beginning 93

Making Heroes, Beginning with One Sentence 98

After the Procession 112

The Frog/Prince 115

My Mother's War 119

Rabbi Seeking 126

That Old-Time Religion 133.

ISBN:

0810151081

0810151243

OCLC:

45708093