Love like that : stories / Emma Duffy-Comparone.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: 211 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781250624550
- 125062455X
- Short stories. Selections
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | DUFFY-CO EMMA | Available | 33111010488464 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Named a Best New Book of 2021 by Vogue and Refinery29
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Lit Hub
Named one of "5 Hot Books" by The National Book Review
Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for a Debut Short Story Collection
"For a friend who needs a reminder that love is weird, humans are complicated, and bad things often get better or at least later become funny stories to tell our friends." -- Vanity Fair
A sharp, witty book about brilliant, broken women that are just the right amount wrong.
Whether diving into complicated relationships or wrestling with family ties, the girls and women who populate this collection--misfits and misanthropes, bickering sisters, responsible daughters, and unhappy wives--don't always find themselves making the best decisions.
A woman struggles with a new kind of love triangle when she moves in with a divorced dad. A lonely teenage beach attendant finds uneasy comradeship with her boss. A high school English teacher gets pushed to her limits when a student plagiarizes. Often caught between desire and duty, guilt and resentment, these characters discover what it means to get lost in love, and do what it takes to find themselves again.
Utterly singular and wholly unforgettable, Emma Duffy-Comparone's stories manage to be slyly, wickedly funny at even their darkest turns and herald the arrival of an irreverent and dazzling new voice.
"A collection of nine darkly playful and moving stories about women who - at their darkest and loneliest times - discover what is worth loving in the world."--Provided by publisher.
The Zen thing -- Marvel Sands -- Sure, fine -- The package deal -- The offering -- Exuma -- Love like that -- Plagiarism -- The devil's triangle.