Boys keep being born / stories by Joan Frank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Joan, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lately, time seems to have taken on an amusing eternal quality. Outer-space time, quick-and-never; a slow wheeling of which Melinda, moving at whatever speed, is more and more aware she has been accorded the briefest, briefest slice. She finds herself now moonwalking through the strange region of not young, not a mother, not married, unlikely to marry. She will have to work until she dies. She will have good friends who'll keep an eye on her, of course; some of them women much like her. She will float toward and finally past the margins of sexual viability, and never have enough money for a facelift. In Boys Keep Being Born, Joan Frank's subject matter is stark; her style, wry and lyrical. Her characters ask point-blank questions of the lives in which, willingly or not, they find themselves. The answers they devise--or settle for--may surprise you.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Exhibit A

The Waiting Room

The Extraordinary Member of Carlos Artiga

The Queen of Worldly Graces

The Scanner

A Stalwart Girl

Green Fruit

Exquisite

The Guardian

When the Universe Was Young

Boys Keep Being Born

What Winter Brings

The Sounds That Arrive in the Present

About the Author.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

70765434