In the Land of Men: Stories - Hardcover

Nelson, Antonya

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688106579 ISBN 13: 9780688106577

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1992

Synopsis

A collection of stories by the author of The Expendables explores a world of migrant workers, blue-collar laborers, transient lovers, weak- spirited husbands, and women who define their lives by a need for men's love. 15,000 first printing. $10,000 ad/promo.

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Review:

Charles Baxter

author of "Believers"

Women under the gaze of men gaze back in these vivid and memorable stories, which might have been written by a passionate anthropologist interested in the odd habits of men: their violent intimacies, their need to keep everything compartmentalized, their occasional, painful lucidity.

Charles Dickinson

author of "With or Without"

Children, lovers, the dispossessed, the heartbroken, the purely evil, Antonya Nelson inhabits them all with the ease of a new master.

Edward Allen

"The New York Times Book Review"

Wonderful stories. What holds them together...is...Nelson's unsentimental generosity toward her characters, her perfectionism about detail, and...her understanding that unhappiness is not tragic -- it's just a fact of life.

Charles Dickinsonauthor of "With or Without"Children, lovers, the dispossessed, the heartbroken, the purely evil, Antonya Nelson inhabits them all with the ease of a new master.

Edward Allen"The New York Times Book Review"Wonderful stories. What holds them together...is...Nelson's unsentimental generosity toward her characters, her perfectionism about detail, and...her understanding that unhappiness is not tragic -- it's just a fact of life.

Charles Baxterauthor of "Believers"Women under the gaze of men gaze back in these vivid and memorable stories, which might have been written by a passionate anthropologist interested in the odd habits of men: their violent intimacies, their need to keep everything compartmentalized, their occasional, painful lucidity.

Edward Allen "The New York Times Book Review" Wonderful stories. What holds them together...is...Nelson's unsentimental generosity toward her characters, her perfectionism about detail, and...her understanding that unhappiness is not tragic -- it's just a fact of life.

Charles Baxter author of "Believers" Women under the gaze of men gaze back in these vivid and memorable stories, which might have been written by a passionate anthropologist interested in the odd habits of men: their violent intimacies, their need to keep everything compartmentalized, their occasional, painful lucidity.

Charles Dickinson author of "With or Without" Children, lovers, the dispossessed, the heartbroken, the purely evil, Antonya Nelson inhabits them all with the ease of a new master.

Edward Allen The New York Times Book Review Wonderful stories. What holds them together...is...Nelson's unsentimental generosity toward her characters, her perfectionism about detail, and...her understanding that unhappiness is not tragic -- it's just a fact of life.

About the Author:

Antonya Nelson teaches creative writing at New Mexico State University and in the Warren Wilson MFA program and divides her time between Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Telluride, Colorado. Another collection of her stories, The Expendables, and the novel Nobody's Girl are published by Scribner Paperback Fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0688106579
• ISBN 13: 9780688106577
• Binding: Hardcover