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History on a Personal Note: Stories
Contributor(s): Kirshenbaum, Binnie (Author)
ISBN: 0060520892     ISBN-13: 9780060520892
Publisher: Ecco Press
OUR PRICE:   $17.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2004
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Annotation: From New York City to the former East Germany, from rural Virginia to affluent suburbia, the characters in these short stories grapple with love, loss, greed, perversion, and other awful truths as they try to transcend their limitations with occasional humor and dignity. In "History on a Personal Note," Lorraine, a Southerner, wonders if her German paramour will find the inspiration to leave his wife amidst the destruction of the Berlin Wall. In "Viewing Stacy from Above," a pregnant woman descends into a pit of despair as she contemplates the constraints of motherhood. In "Money Honey," a young adulteress who ditches her husband is reprimanded by an extended family of elders whose morals are even more dubious than her own.

Contemplative, allegorical, and witty, "History on a Personal Note" takes us into a world laced with black humor and makes us laugh -- until it hurts.

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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
- Fiction | Sea Stories
- Fiction | Romance - Collections & Anthologies
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2003063127
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.36" W x 8.04" (0.38 lbs) 175 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
- Religious Orientation - Jewish
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Topical - Friendship
 
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From New York City to the former East Germany, from rural Virginia to affluent suburbia, the characters in these short stories grapple with love, loss, greed, perversion, and other awful truths as they try to transcend their limitations with occasional humor and dignity. In History on a Personal Note, Lorraine, a Southerner, wonders if her German paramour will find the inspiration to leave his wife amidst the destruction of the Berlin Wall. In Viewing Stacy from Above, a pregnant woman descends into a pit of despair as she contemplates the constraints of motherhood. In Money Honey, a young adulteress who ditches her husband is reprimanded by an extended family of elders whose morals are even more dubious than her own.

Contemplative, allegorical, and witty, History on a Personal Note takes us into a world laced with black humor and makes us laugh -- until it hurts.


Contributor Bio(s): Kirshenbaum, Binnie: -

Binnie Kirshenbaum is the author of An Almost Perfect Moment, On Mermaid Avenue, A Disturbance in One Place, Pure Poetry, Hester Among the Ruins, and History on a Personal Note. She is a professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts, where she is chair of the Graduate Writing Program.