| Women in the Grove: Stories Contributor(s): Peterson, Paula (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807083852 ISBN-13: 9780807083857 Publisher: Beacon Press OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2005 Annotation: Paula Peterson's memoir, Penitent, with Roses, was an unflinching account of her life as a woman and mother after being diagnosed as HIV positive. All the stories in Women in the Grove feature women living with HIV infection. Shot through with humor, warmth, and insight, Peterson succeeds in bringing us to a radically new understanding of life with AIDS. "Paula W. Peterson's wonderful debut collection, Women in the Grove, is about wonder and sorrow and amazing grace." --Sandra Scofield, Dallas Morning News "It's been a long time since I read a collection as strong, stirring, and surprising as Women in the Grove. Each story is tied in some way to AIDS--but thrillingly the true adventure here is the strength of the human heart. Paula Peterson is a dazzling writer." --Marcie Hershman, author of Safe in America and Speak to Me: Grief, Love and What Endures "[A] smart, confident collection." --Sven Birkerts, author of The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age "Twenty years into the epidemic, a work with something truly new to say about AIDS; that's quite an achievement." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Bluestreak |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.64" W x 8.26" (0.58 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - AIDS |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Women in the Grove offers nine surprising, impossible-to-put-down stories about lives filled with loneliness, love, humor, grace, and mortality. The women are black, white, immigrants, faculty wives; they are in rehab and in high school, and each is filled with the imperative to go on living. In story after story Peterson presents the humanity of each of her characters even as they are compelled to make impossible choices-sometimes disastrous ones-about how they will spend the rest of their days. Theirs is an entirely fresh and unexpected brand of heroism. |