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Little Sinners and Other Stories

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Availability:In StockContributor:Karen BrownSeries:The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in FictionPublish date:9/1/2012Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9780803243422ISBN-10:803243421UPC:9780803243422Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author)Size:8.40 x 5.60 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCDEVQWR30

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 neighborhood 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 and passionately, their own methods of escape.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9780803243422ISBN-10:803243421UPC:9780803243422Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author)Size:8.40 x 5.60 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCDEVQWR30
Karen Brown is the author of Pins and Needles: Stories, winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, and The Longings of Wayward Girls: A Novel. Her stories have been included in The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 and The Best American Short Stories 2008.

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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Karen Brown

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