Goodnight, beautiful women : stories / Anna Noyes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noyes, Anna, author.

Standardized Title:

Stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Maine--Fiction.

Maine.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

216 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, 2016.

Summary:

This is an extraordinary book of stories. Many of the characters are anchored to coastal Maine, but a particular quality of wildness animates nearly all of them. The stories are energetic, often mysterious, and beautifully written, and they will stay in your memory long after you finish the book. Charles Baxter Moving along the Maine Coast and beyond, the interconnected stories in Goodnight, Beautiful Women bring us into the sultry, mysterious inner lives of New England women and girls as they navigate the dangers and struggles of their outer worlds. With novelistic breadth and a quicksilver emotional intelligence, Noyes explores the ruptures and vicissitudes of growing up and growing old, and shines a light on our most uncomfortable impulses while masterfully charting the depths of our murky desires. A woman watches her husband throw one by one their earthly possessions into the local quarry, before vanishing himself; two girls from very different social classes find themselves deep in the throes of a punishing affair; a motherless teenager is sexually awakened in the aftermath of a local trauma; and a woman s guilt from a childhood lie about her intellectually disabled cousin reverberates into her married years. Dark and brilliant, rhythmic and lucid, Goodnight, Beautiful Women marks the arrival of a fearless and unique new young voice in American fiction.

Contents:

Hibernation

Treelaw

Safe as houses

Drawing blood

Quarry

Glow baby

Goodnight, beautiful women

Werewolf

This is who she was

Changeling

Homecoming.

ISBN:

9780802124845

0802124844

9781786490674

1786490676

OCLC:

922911657