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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100525658246

ISBN-139780525658245

eBay Product ID (ePID)7038543007

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Book TitleWhy I Don't Write : and Other Stories

Number of Pages176 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicContemporary Women, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary

Publication Year2020

GenreFiction

AuthorSusan Minot

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight12.2 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.9 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2019-052531

Reviews"Sterling... Pristine... fully formed, often erotic, gorgeous, and searing.,.Minot isexceptionally attuned to forces intimate and social, and her gift for potent distillation yields storiesthat are stunning in every sense of the word." --Booklist

SynopsisA superb collection of short fiction--her first in thirty years and spanning many geographies--from the critically acclaimed author of Monkeys , Evening , and Thirty Girls . A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. A writer dryly catalogs the myriad reasons she cannot write; an artist bicycles through a protest encampment in lower Manhattan and ruminates on an elusive lover; an old woman on her deathbed calls out for a man other than her husband; a hapless fifteen-year-old boy finds himself in sexual peril; two young people in the 1990s fall helplessly in love, then bicker just as helplessly, tortured by jealousy and mistrust. In each of these stories Minot explores the difficult geometry of human relations, the lure of love and physical desire, and the lifelong quest for meaning and connection. Her characters are all searching for truth, in feeling and in action, as societal norms are upended and justice and coherence flounder. Urgent and immediate, precisely observed, deeply felt, and gorgeously written, the stories in Why I Don't Write showcase an author at the top of her form., A superb collection of short fiction--her first in thirty years and spanning many geographies--from the critically acclaimed author of Monkeys, Evening, and Thirty Girls A writer dryly catalogs the myriad reasons she cannot write; an artist bicycles through protests in lower Manhattan and ruminates on an elusive lover; an old woman on her deathbed calls out for a man other than her husband; a hapless fifteen-year-old boy finds himself in sexual peril; two young people in the 1990s fall helplessly in love, then bicker just as helplessly, tortured by jealousy and mistrust. In each of these stories Minot explores the difficult geometry of human relations, the lure of love and physical desire, and the lifelong quest for meaning and connection. Her characters are all searching for truth, in feeling and in action, as societal norms are upended and justice and coherence flounder. Urgent and immediate, precisely observed, deeply felt, and gorgeously written, the stories in Why I Don't Write showcase an author at the top of her form.

LC Classification NumberPS3563.I4755