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New American Library / Mentor Book (1975), Mass Market Paperback, 379 pages
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Contains twenty-six short stories about the special experience of being a woman.
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LibraryThing member chellerystick
A nice short-story anthology. Every year I re-read Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing."
LibraryThing member agnesmack
For a person who claims not to like short stories, I've read an awful lot of short story collections this year.
This was by far the best of them. I don't know where I got this book from, but I have definitely known for awhile that I need to read more women authors, especially considering my Philip
The worst story in this book was easily Miss Furr and Miss Skeene by Gertrude Stein. Here's a sample paragraph :
"To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay."
The entire story was like this. Sentences full of how gay they were, every day, in every way. Over and over again.
The best was Winter Night by Kay Boyle. Of course I don't remember anything about it.
Other authors in this collection that have been added to my watch list are :
Doris Lessing
Grace Paley
Alice Munro
This was by far the best of them. I don't know where I got this book from, but I have definitely known for awhile that I need to read more women authors, especially considering my Philip
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Roth obsession.The worst story in this book was easily Miss Furr and Miss Skeene by Gertrude Stein. Here's a sample paragraph :
"To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay."
The entire story was like this. Sentences full of how gay they were, every day, in every way. Over and over again.
The best was Winter Night by Kay Boyle. Of course I don't remember anything about it.
Other authors in this collection that have been added to my watch list are :
Doris Lessing
Grace Paley
Alice Munro
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LibraryThing member astrologerjenny
This is a great anthology of women’s fiction, with lots of classic work. They range from Kate Chopin’s intense “Story of an Hour” to Alice Walker’s sixties-flavored “Everyday Use”. In between there’s Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Colette, Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Tillie Olsen,
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Doris Lessing, Grace Paley, Flannery O’Connor, Margaret Drabble, and more. How could you go wrong? Show Less
LibraryThing member astrologerjenny
This is a great anthology of women’s fiction, with lots of classic work. They range from Kate Chopin’s intense “Story of an Hour” to Alice Walker’s sixties-flavored “Everyday Use”. In between there’s Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Colette, Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Tillie Olsen,
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Doris Lessing, Grace Paley, Flannery O’Connor, Margaret Drabble, and more. How could you go wrong? Show Less
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75-21588