Personal velocity / Rebecca Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Rebecca, 1962-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

179 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, 2001.

Summary:

Rebecca Miller's vibrant debut, Personal Velocity, is a collection of stories that explore the multifaceted lives of modern women in seven arresting portraits. Miller delves into sexuality, motherhood, infidelity, and being single, effortlessly carrying us from the cloistered social worlds of New York City to a blue-collar town in Arizona.

In these stories Miller peels away the layers of each strikingly different woman and unveils her intimate world. In the opening story, "Greta," a cookbook editor is asked suddenly to edit a famous novelist's new book. Its instant success unearths her ambition and propels her out of a lackluster marriage. In "Bryna" a farmer's wife longs for a glamorous life and constantly imagines herself being interviewed. In "Louisa," an emotionally isolated painter, haunted by the death of her twin, moves rapidly from one lover to the next, acting out a self-perpetuating drama over which she has no control. In "Delia," a tough mother flees an abusive husband and goes into hiding with her children, and "Nancy" tells of a psychologically troubled nine-year-old girl growing up in New York high society who goes to great lengths to gain attention.

Contents:

Greta 1

Delia 31

Louisa 57

Julianne 101

Bryna 113

Nancy 133

Paula 157.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

080211699X

OCLC:

46731235