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Scribner, April 2003
Trade Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN-10: 0743218728
ISBN-13: 9780743218726
Description
Female Trouble features thirteen wise, funny, and startlingly perceptive stories about the vagaries and revelations of womanhood. Named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best writers of her generation, Antonya Nelson explores the broad notion of family from myriad angles in Female Trouble. Set in the vividly rendered Midwest, these moving stories are dark and honest portraits of people in moral quandaries, gray areas, unclear circumstances -- from the three-timing thirty-year-old man of the title story to the divorced mother of a turbulent teen in "Incognito" to the sexually adventurous daughter of an adulterous mother in "Stitches." With Female Trouble, Nelson has created a cast of memorable characters who reveal us to ourselves with disturbing clarity and conscience.
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Table of ContentsJane Hamilton When Antonya Nelson passes into the next world she will have a Preferred Customer Card
-- along with a very few others who write flawless sentences, and make characters who look at life straight on, without flinching. These wonderful stories are made by a master, and are thrilling.
Michael Chabon I scan the tables of contents of magazines, looking for Antonya Nelson's name, hoping that she has decided to bless us again. She's absolutely one of my favorites among story writers today, and I envy the reader who has yet to discover her marvelous work.
Frederick Busch, The New York Times Book ReviewThese are serious stories, sensual and dark, with much at risk for the reader and, one imagines, the writer...Female Trouble is the work of a strong writer who sees both panoramically and with a powerfully close focus.
Carmela CiuraruNewsdayPrecise, perceptive, and exceedingly funny.
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In the Land of MenIn this powerful collection of stories, Antonya Nelson portrays women whose lives have slipped loose from their moorings and the men who can't really...Read More
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