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Faber & Faber (1985), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 288 pages
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Fourteen stories focus on a group of southern women who seek happiness and a sense of worth in bars, marriages, divorces, art, drug use, lovers' arms, and earthquakes.
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"Nerve" in Gilchrist's work is not a narrow thread. It is present in her unadorned sentences, her unfailing ear, her clear and unsentimental gaze and in the attention paid to lust. In these fourteen stories, rash behaviors make for bold characterizations: The danger zones into which these
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deliciously flawed southern women trespass are ruled by money, passion, and the disappointments delivered by mothers, marriage, and men. Show Less
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288 p.; 8.6 inches
ISBN
0571134467 / 9780571134465