The curse of the appropriate man / Lynn Freed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freed, Lynn.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Master and servant--Fiction.

Master and servant.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

188 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Orlando : Harcourt, 2004.

Summary:

These fourteen short stories, written over the past ten years but never before collected, deal with the struggles between mothers and their wayward daughters, the often preposterous bonds that tie men and women together, and the complex games masters and servants play with one another. In spare, elegant prose, Freed delivers surprise after surprise as she shakes the truth from life. Whether it's her portrayal of a mother mired in senile dementia in "Ma," a young girl experiencing her first sexual encounter with an itinerant knife-sharpener in "Under the House," or a young woman incapable of loving conventionally in "An Error of Desire," Freed portrays the absurdity, the delusions, the dramas, and the dignity of her characters' lives. These masterful stories reinforce her reputation as one of our most fearless and sophisticated explorers of sexual and filial love.

Contents:

Under the house

Foreign student

The widow's daughter

Family of shadows

An error or desire

Liars, cheats and cowards

The curse of the appropriate man

Twilight

Selina comes to the city

William

Songbird

The first rule of happiness

Luck

Ma : a memoir.

Notes:

"A Harvest original."

ISBN:

0156029944

OCLC:

54778459