The porno girl and other stories / Merin Wexler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wexler, Merin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

225 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2003.

Summary:

Brazen and sharp-witted, Merin Wexler's linked stories bind mothers, daughters, and wives wrestling with a fear of intimacy in sexual and family relationships. These are women and teenagers caught in the pivotal conflicts of their lives, questioning and testing out their desirability, and their fitness as wives, mothers, and friends. Merin Wexler touches a nerve, capturing longings and terrors that are both all too familiar and usually kept private. A new mother finds herself inexplicably drawn to the local porn shop, her baby strapped to her chest. A career mom decides to have a second child in order to keep her nanny. A teenaged baby-sitter sleeps with the dad to get closer to the mom. The glamorous proprietress of the summerhouse next door takes advantage of her infatuated teenage neighbor to suppress her feelings of estrangement from her indifferent husband. Wickedly funny and unsettling, The Porno Girl is a work of startling insight by a gifted young writer.

Contents:

The porno girl

The nanny trap

Don Giovanni in the tub

What Marcia wanted

Waiting to discover electricity

Save yourself

The closet

Helen of Alexandria

The Maginot Line

Pink is for punks

Solomon and his wives.

ISBN:

0312310579

OCLC:

51460632