Portraits of a few of the people I've made cry : stories / Christine Sneed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sneed, Christine, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

ix, 154 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2010]

Summary:

The ten stories in this striking debut collection examine the perils of love and what it means to live during an era when people will offer themselves, almost unthinkingly, to strangers. Risks and repercussions are never fully weighed. People leap and almost always land on rocky ground. May-December romances flourish in these stories, as do self-doubt and, in many cases, serious regret. Mysterious, dangerous benefactors, dead and living artists, movie stars and college professors, plagiarists, and distinguished foreign novelists are among the many different characters. No one is blameless, but villains are difficult to single out--everyone seemingly bears responsibility for his or her desires and for the outcome of difficult choices so often made hopefully and naively.

Contents:

Quality of life

Portraits of a few of the people I've made cry

Twelve + twelve

You're so different

By the way

Alex Rice Inc.

Interview with the second wife

For once in your life

A million dollars

Walled city.

Notes:

"This book is the winner of the 2009 Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction"--T.p. verso.

ISBN:

9781558498587

1558498583

OCLC:

648480760