| Who Do You Love: Stories Contributor(s): Thompson, Jean (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743203011 ISBN-13: 9780743203012 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2000 Annotation: This collection, named a finalist for the National Book Award and other honors, presents the lives of ordinary people who long for communion and grace with others. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00041951 |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.28" W x 7.96" (0.58 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this acclaimed collection, Jean Thompson limns the lives of ordinary people -- a lonely social worker, a down-and-out junkie, a divorced cop on the night shift -- to extraordinary effect. With wisdom and sympathy and spare eloquence, she writes of their inarticulate longings for communion and grace.Yet even the saddest situations are imbued with Thompson s characteristic humor and a wry glimmer of hope. With Who Do You Love, readers will discover a writer with rare insight into the resiliency of the human spirit and the complexities of love. |
Contributor Bio(s): Thompson, Jean: - Jean Thompson is a novelist and short story writer. Her works include the novels A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl, She Poured Out Her Heart, The Humanity Project, The Year We Left Home, City Boy, Wide Blue Yonder, The Woman Driver, and My Wisdom and the short story collections The Witch and Other Tales Re-Told, Do Not Deny Me, Throw Like a Girl, Who Do You Love (a National Book Award finalist), Little Face and Other Stories, and The Gasoline Wars. Thompson's short fiction has been published in many magazines and journals, including the New Yorker, and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. Thompson has been the recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, among other accolades, and has taught creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Reed College, Northwestern University, and other colleges and universities. She lives in Urbana, Illinois. |