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PublisherUniversity Press of Kentucky

ISBN-100813175127

ISBN-139780813175126

eBay Product ID (ePID)240321214

Product Key Features

Book TitleMake Way for Her : and Other Stories

Number of Pages200 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2018

TopicContemporary Women, Short Stories (Single Author), Family Life, Romance / Collections & Anthologies

GenreFiction

AuthorKatie Cortese

Book SeriesUniversity Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight14.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2017-045449

ReviewsKatie Cortese's Make Way for Her and Other Stories offers enticing glimpses of curiously compact, womencentric fictional universes, generally focused on girls, teenagers, women, and the men who affect--but not necessarily impact--their lives. Cortese's writing is smoothly compelling and adapts from voice to voice. Though the varied women of Make Way for Her are emerging and evolving, making right and wrong choices along the way, for the most part they share an appealing internal wisdom that keeps them true to their real selves, and will hopefully also keep them on the right course., Heartening, and unusually thoughtful, this collection of stories places the young women, their feelings and minds (not just their bodies) at the center. In that way, it seems more true to what adolescence in young women can be: full of mistaken attachments, questioning actions, and, sometimes, provocative men who may be a wrong choice, may appear to represent freedom that, in fact, will be due to the young woman's own agency and growth., Cortese's collection is sometimes hopeful, sometimes heartbreaking, and always authentic. This beautiful collection is for any woman who desires a trip back to times past and for any girl who wants a roadmap to see what lies ahead., Some of the many foolhardy, vulnerable and brave ways innocence insists upon bittersweet experience are superbly portrayed in Katie Cortese's Make Way For Her and Other Stories . With sensuous prose, achingly authentic characters and precise narrative skill, Cortese enthralls and stuns, page after page, story upon story. A magnificent, heartbreaking collection., "Cortese's collection is sometimes hopeful, sometimes heartbreaking, and always authentic. This beautiful collection is for any woman who desires a trip back to times past and for any girl who wants a roadmap to see what lies ahead." -- Review of Texas Books, What distinguishes this collection from others of its kind are stories that are engrossing, visceral, and strange enough to be singular., Katie Cortese's Make Way for Her and Other Stories offers enticing glimpses of curiously compact, womencentric fictional universes, generally focused on girls, teenagers, women, and the men who affect--but not necessarily impact--their lives. Cortese's writing is smoothly compelling and adapts from voice to voice., "Katie Cortese's Make Way for Her and Other Stories offers enticing glimpses of curiously compact, womencentric fictional universes, generally focused on girls, teenagers, women, and the men who affect -- but not necessarily impact -- their lives. Cortese's writing is smoothly compelling and adapts from voice to voice." -- Foreword Reviews, This collection is not about understanding our young people. It's about living and breathing inside their bodies and heads. Salinger can step aside now. Make way for Katie Cortese!, "The collections' strongest stories portray fragile romantic connections with unsparing criticism, voice uncomfortable truths about the way young people interact in modern culture, and ask questions about how girls approach freedom and desire. These portraits are a welcome addition to the burgeoning canon of finely wrought female stories." -- Kirkus Reviews, The collections' strongest stories portray fragile romantic connections with unsparing criticism, voice uncomfortable truths about the way young people interact in modern culture, and ask questions about how girls approach freedom and desire. These portraits are a welcome addition to the burgeoning canon of finely wrought female stories.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813.6

Table Of Content1. Sweetness on the Tongue 2. Desire Comes Closer 3. Firebug 4. Welcome to Snow 5. Straight and Narrow 6. Bitter, Sweet, Salt 7. The Bounce Back 8. Lighter, Bluer, Clearer, Colder 9. Make Way for Her 10. Silent Blooms of Sudden Heat Acknowledgments

SynopsisA girl afflicted with pyrokinesis tries to control her fire-starting long enough to go to a dance with a boy she likes. A woman trapped in a stalled marriage is excited by an alluring ex-con who enrolls in her YMCA cooking class. A teen accompanies her mother, a prestigious poet, to a writing conference where she navigates a misguided attraction to a married writer-who is, in turn, attracted to her mother-leaving her "inventing punishments for writers who believe in clichés as tired as broken hearts." In this affecting collection, Katie Cortese explores the many faces of love and desire. Featuring female narrators that range in age from five to forty, the narratives in Make Way for Her speak to the many challenges and often bittersweet rewards of offering, receiving, and returning love as imperfect human beings. The stories are united by the theme of desperate love, whether it's a daughter's love for a parent, a sister's for a sibling, or a romantic love that is sometimes returned and sometimes unrequited. Cortese's complex and multilayered stories play with the reader's own desires and anticipations as her characters stubbornly resist the expected. The intrepid girls and women in this book are, above all, explorers. They drive classic cars from Maine to Phoenix, board airplanes for the first time, and hike dense forests in search of adventure; but what they often find is that the most treacherous landscapes lie within. As a result, Make Way for Her explores a world of women who crave knowledge and experience, not simply sex or love., In this affecting collection, Katie Cortese explores the many faces of love and desire. Featuring female narrators that range in age from five to forty, the narratives in Make Way for Her speak to the many challenges and often bittersweet rewards of offering, receiving, and returning love as imperfect human beings., A girl afflicted with pyrokinesis tries to control her fire-starting long enough to go to a dance with a boy she likes. A woman trapped in a stalled marriage is excited by an alluring ex-con who enrolls in her YMCA cooking class. A teen accompanies her mother, a prestigious poet, to a writing conference where she navigates a misguided attraction to a married writer--who is, in turn, attracted to her mother--leaving her "inventing punishments for writers who believe in clichés as tired as broken hearts." In this affecting collection, Katie Cortese explores the many faces of love and desire. Featuring female narrators that range in age from five to forty, the narratives in Make Way for Her speak to the many challenges and often bittersweet rewards of offering, receiving, and returning love as imperfect human beings. The stories are united by the theme of desperate love, whether it's a daughter's love for a parent, a sister's for a sibling, or a romantic love that is sometimes returned and sometimes unrequited. Cortese's complex and multilayered stories play with the reader's own desires and anticipations as her characters stubbornly resist the expected. The intrepid girls and women in this book are, above all, explorers. They drive classic cars from Maine to Phoenix, board airplanes for the first time, and hike dense forests in search of adventure; but what they often find is that the most treacherous landscapes lie within. As a result, Make Way for Her explores a world of women who crave knowledge and experience, not simply sex or love., A girl afflicted with pyrokinesis tries to control her fire-starting long enough to go to a dance with a boy she likes. A woman trapped in a stalled marriage is excited by an alluring ex-con who enrolls in her YMCA cooking class. A teen accompanies her mother, a prestigious poet, to a writing conference where she navigates a misguided attraction to a married writer -- who is, in turn, attracted to her mother -- leaving her "inventing punishments for writers who believe in clich s as tired as broken hearts." In this affecting collection, Katie Cortese explores the many faces of love and desire. Featuring female narrators that range in age from five to forty, the narratives in Make Way for Her speak to the many challenges and often bittersweet rewards of offering, receiving, and returning love as imperfect human beings. The stories are united by the theme of desperate love, whether it's a daughter's love for a parent, a sister's for a sibling, or a romantic love that is sometimes returned and sometimes unrequited. Cortese's complex and multilayered stories play with the reader's own desires and anticipations as her characters stubbornly resist the expected. The intrepid girls and women in this book are, above all, explorers. They drive classic cars from Maine to Phoenix, board airplanes for the first time, and hike dense forests in search of adventure; but what they often find is that the most treacherous landscapes lie within. As a result, Make Way for Her explores a world of women who crave knowledge and experience, not simply sex or love.

LC Classification NumberPS3603.O78255