Lucky Girls: Stories Contributor(s): Freudenberger, Nell (Author) |
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ISBN: 0062915223 ISBN-13: 9780062915221 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Art of the Story |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8" (0.35 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: First highlighted in The New Yorker fiction issue, here is award-winning writer Nell Freudenberger's debut story collection Living according to unfamiliar rules, these characters are also vulnerable in unique ways. In the title story, a young woman who has been involved in a five-year affair with a married Indian man feels bound to both her memories and her adopted country after his death. The protagonist of "Outside the Eastern Gate" returns to her childhood home in Delhi, to find a house still inhabited by the impulsive, desperate spirit of her mother, who left her family for a wild journey over the Khyber Pass to Afghanistan. In "Letter from the Last Bastion," a teenage girl begins a correspondence with a novelist who's built his reputation writing about his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam and who, in his letters, confides in her a secret about his past. Highly anticipated in the literary community and beyond, Lucky Girls marks the debut of a very special talent that places her among today's most gifted young writers. |
Contributor Bio(s): Freudenberger, Nell: - Nell Freudenberger is the author of the novels Lost and Wanted, The Newlyweds and The Dissident, and of the story collection Lucky Girls, which won the PEN/Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Named one of The New Yorker's "20 under 40" in 2010, she is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a Cullman Fellowship from the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. |