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Paperback. Pub the Date: January. 1999 Pages: 192 in Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Sue Miller.'s stories from a chapter in the moral history of our time Like Sue Miller's bestselling novels. The this collection of of shorts for stories explores the treacherously and shifting between slip connections ground of erotic and family relationships with deftness and depth. The title story is about a young man who takes up successively with three daughters of the most fashionable family in town. In other stories. whose characters range from a young girl in the first blush of sexual curiosity to a stricken dowager whose seizures release a utal and sometimes obscene candor. Sue Miller presents a compelling gallery of contemporary men and women with hungry hearts and dismayed consciences.
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"Compelling...What [Miller] offers...is a distinctive sensibility--a candid exploration of the frail and gritty truths about trying to love without harm or reprisal." -- "Boston Globe""[Miller's] writing is rich, her perceptions acute." -- "Newsday""Graceful prose and some cleverly kinky twists make for provocative reading."-- "Los Angeles Times Book Review" "[Sue Miller] has a genius for understanding sexual behavior, and for transforming it into art." -- Hilma Wolitzer
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Eleven linked short stories by the bestselling author of WHILE I WAS GONE
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- PublisherHarper Perennial
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0060929979
- ISBN 13 9780060929978
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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