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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Karen Brown's Little Sinners, and Other Stories features a sad, strange mosaic of women and men grappling with the loss and pain of everyday existence, people inhabiting a suburban landscape haunted by ghosts: a mother who leaps from a ridge, a mistress found at the bottom of the Connecticut River, a father who dresses in a pale blue custom suit - and disappears. The dead leave behind postcards, houses, bottles of sherry, bones. They become local legends, their stories part of the characters' own: an expectant mother in an isolated cottage on Long Island Sound uncovers an unsettling secret in her backyard; a troubled housewife is lured to a dinner party by a teenage girl whose mother has vanished under mysterious circumstances; a woman and her lover swim the pools of their neighbourhood under cover of darkness; a young heiress struggles with mortality and the abandonments in her past. These stories capture the domestic world in all its blighted promise - a world where women's roles in housekeeping, marriage, childbirth, and sex have been all too well defined, and where the characters fashion - recklessly, passionately - their own methods of escape.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Plný název: Little Sinners, and Other Stories
• Autor: Karen Brown
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 208
• EAN: 9780803243422
• ISBN: 0803243421
• ID: 04923311
• Nakladatelství: University of Nebraska Press
• Hmotnost: 272 g
• Rozměry: 216 × 140 × 5 mm
• Datum vydání: 01. September 2012

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