| Nightwork Contributor(s): Schutt, Christine (Author) |
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ISBN: 1564782395 ISBN-13: 9781564782397 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2000 Annotation: -- First paperback edition. -- A mother teaches her son how to kiss. A father and his grown daughter share secrets while sharing their bodies. A woman finds she cannot experience her lover's touch without succumbing to intensely erotic recollections of a past lover. Webs of memory, oblique emotion and immediate sensation -- spun in prose that is spare, fevered, oblique and beautiful -- Nightwork's tales tease out the sexual and the violent imbedded in the mundane. -- Christine Schutt lives and works in New York City. This is her first book. -- First published by Knopf ('96). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00020978 |
| Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive) |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.5" W x 8.49" (0.40 lbs) 129 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this, her first collection of stories, Christine Schutt gives exquisite and provocative form to feelings and memories. "Nightwork" is a masterful dreamwork, revealing with startling clarity the dark and unsettling sexuality that lies just beneath the surface of the mundane. |
