Ice cream / Helen Dunmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunmore, Helen, 1952-2017.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

England--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

England.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

217 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, [2003]

Summary:

Witty, stylish, and evocative, Ice Cream is Helen Dunmore's astonishing new collection of stories, the first by the award-winning author of The Siege and A Spell of Winter to be published in the United States. World-class storyteller Helen Dunmore explores friendship, regret, and mysterious passions in stories crafted with subtlety, humor, and a surprising tenderness. In each taut, agile tale, characters negotiate situations that are often both mundane and bizarre: a cafeteria cook confronts her Polish pen pal; a divorced mother gains insight from a parking meter; a beautiful, thin, and famous woman succumbs to the lure of comfort food; a grieving husband says farewell to his wife; a boastful writer is put in his place in spectacular fashion; and in a chilling future, conception is ruthlessly controlled by the government. In Ice Cream, Dunmore reveals both her poet's ear for the concise and piercing potentialities of language and the novelist's ambition of scope, proving her status as "a master of the shorter form" (The Sunday Telegraph).

Contents:

My Polish teacher's tie

Lilac

You stayed awake with me

The fag

Leonardo, Michelangelo, superstork

The lighthouse keeper's wife

Ice cream

Be vigilant, rejoice, eat plenty

The clear and rolling water

Living out

Mason's mini-break

Salmon

The icon room

Coosing

The kiwi-fruit arbour

Emily's ring

Swimming into the millennium

Lisette.

ISBN:

0802117333

9780802117335

080214053X

9780802140531

OCLC:

55602991