You would have told me not to : stories / Christopher Coake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coake, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychological fiction, American.

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

299 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Encino, CA : Delphinium Books, [2020]

Summary:

"These stories (and one novella) arrive in the midst of the #Metoo movement. They examine the fallout from failed relationships between men and women, relationships that have crumbled under the weight of betrayal, misplaced hopes, illness--and in particular, from masculinity at its most toxic and misguided. A man in his mid-thirties receives a call from a woman he barely knew who informs him that a girl he bedded and dumped in high school has died of cancer. Another man who had an affair and left a woman without any warning finds himself working on a demolition job with a younger man who might be their son. Another man, obese for years, is left by his wife, loses weight and, drunk with the power of being finally fit, disastrously tries to reconnect with his former spouse. And in the title story of the collection, a woman summoned to the bedside of her son who has suffered a gunshot wound must finally come to terms with the serial infidelities of her charming ex-husband. These fictions ask very contemporary questions: how do ex-spouses learn to live again in proximity to one another; how do we make peace with our bodies and their own worst impulses; how do we learn to turn and face, full-on, the worst mistakes of our younger selves?"--Amazon.com

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: That First Time

Her Kind of People

You Would Have Told Me Not To

Waste

This Will Come as a Surprise to You

Getaway.

ISBN:

9781883285906

1883285909

OCLC:

1152994994

Publisher Number:

99986845215