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Synopsis
Abbott's community is pure Americana, a wild world inhabited by gloriously street-smart smartasses: overeducated, underemployed men mourning for the confident women who have left themOCoor have they?OCobut knowing that equally confident women are just around the cornerOCoor are they? His urgent, maximalist style allows their exhilarating voices to be heard and remembered."
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Review
Abbott writes like a fallen angel. These are wild, vibrant stories, caustic and sardonic, wildly funny and bitter as grief, full of passion and perfidy. As his characters crash through burnt-over landscapes and tune into 'the talk talked by worms,' they bring us an odd kind of hope. - Andrea Barrett
From the Author
a correction to the Kirkus review
While I am delighted that the folks at Kirkus Associates have found my newest collection to be, uh, vigorous, intelligent and witty, I must make the following correction: Wet Places at Noon is the title of the book, not the title of the story mentioned in the review; that story is "The Way Sin is Said in Wonderland." This minor complaint aside, I'm tickled pink and silly by the notice.
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- PublisherUniversity of Iowa Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0877456054
- ISBN 13 9780877456056
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages194
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