Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry Stories / Christine Sneed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sneed, Christine, 1971-

Series:

Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Short stories.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61376-045-0

OCLC:

794700501