Portrait of my mother, who posed nude in wartime : stories / Marjorie Sandor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sandor, Marjorie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Domestic fiction, American.

Genre:

Domestic fiction, American.

Local author.

American fiction.

English fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

213 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Ky. : Sarabande Books, [2003]

Summary:

"These beautiful stories freeze the sweep of the hands of the clock, they stop the beat of your heart, with the precision of their language and their generous emotion." -- Frederick Busch

Linked stories follow a Jewish-American family across several generations. Clara comes from a restrained, secretive family lending the book a taut narrative tension. The big secret -- her husband's adultery during World War II -- is not revealed until the last story. Sandor's prose is quiet, moving, psychologically acute.

Marjorie Sandor is the author of "The Night Gardener" (Lyons) and "A Night of Music "(Ecco). Her fiction has been anthologized in "Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize XIII," and "The Best of Beacon." She teaches at Oregon State University in Corvallis.

Contents:

Legend

Capacity

Elegy for Miss Beagle

Orphan of love

Portrait of my mother, who posed nude in wartime

The handcuff king

Annunciation

God's spies

Gravity

Malingerer.

Notes:

National Jewish Book Awards - Fiction, Winner, 2004

Other Format:

Online version: Sandor, Marjorie. Portrait of my mother, who posed nude in wartime.

ISBN:

1889330833

9781889330839

1889330825

9781889330822

OCLC:

52098893

Online:

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