It was like my trying to have a tender-hearted nature : a novella and stories / Diane Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Diane, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American prose literature.

Short stories, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Ala. : FC2, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work by Diane Williams delves into the strange relationships of men and women. From marital betrayal to spousal abuse and unrelenting desire, Williams illuminates the lives of her characters in prose as sparse and stark as it is beautiful. These stories are as short as prose poems and as complex as novels. In them, meanings remain ambiguous and consequences seem uncertain. In the novella "On Sexual Strength" she describes the intense and sometimes strange relationship between two neighboring couples and the rage that comes with adultery, and a narrator whose social inadequacies and l

Contents:

CONTENTS; On Sexual Strength (a novella); The Glam Bird; What a Great Man Learned About Reflection and Emotion; Sweet; The Ring Stuck On; I Was Very Hungry!; A Dramatic Classic Leap; A Thousand Groans; I Hope You Will Be More Tip-Top; Well, Well, Well, Well, Well; Everybody's Syrup; The Easiest Way of Having; The Life of Any Cook; Rice; Stronger Than a Man, Simpler Than a Woman; These Blenches Gave My Heart; The Lesser Passage Room; The Facts About Telling Character; Flower; Doodia; Handy-Dandy; Aggressive Glass and Mirrors; Time-Consuming Striking Combinations

Both My Wife and I Were Very Well SatisfiedShe Began; Baby Flourishes; Opening the Closing Mouth of the Woman; The King Emperor; Please Let Me Out Again of the Small Plugged Hole; The Philadelphia Story; Eat the Deep Too!; Cutting and Dressing; Dangeresque; Jewish Folktale; To Squeeze Water; Jessamine, Ewing, Erastus, and Keane; Her Leg; Inspiring One; The Widow and the Hamburger; Satisfying, Exciting, Superb; Affection; Other Rash

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8051-5

OCLC:

182560938