Objects of Desire: Stories - Softcover

Sestanovich, Clare

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0593311191 ISBN 13: 9780593311196

Publisher: Vintage, 2022

Synopsis

"A debut story collection of the rarest kind ... you wish that every single entry could be an entire novel." --Entertainment Weekly

Fresh, intimate stories of women's lives from an extraordinary new literary voice, laying bare the unexpected beauty and irony in contemporary life

A college freshman, traveling home, strikesup an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the plane. A mother prepares for her son's wedding, her own life unraveling as his comes together. A long-lost stepbrother's visit to New York prompts a family's reckoning with its old taboos. A wife considers the secrets her marriage once contained. An office worker, exhausted by the ambitions of the men around her, emerges into a gridlocked city one afternoon to make a decision.

In these eleven powerful stories, thrilling desire and melancholic yearning animate women's lives, from the brink of adulthood to the labyrinthine path between twenty and thirty, to middle age, when certain possibilities quietly elapse. Tender, lucid, and piercingly funny, Objects of Desire is a collection pulsing with subtle drama, rich with unforgettable scenes, and alive with moments of recognition each more startling than the last--a spellbinding debut that announces a major talent.

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About the Author

CLARE SESTANOVICH, named a "5 Under 35" honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2022, is a fiction writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper's, The Drift, and Electric Literature. Objects of Desire, a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, is her first collection. She lives in Brooklyn.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593311191
• ISBN 13: 9780593311196
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224