Women in their beds : new and selected stories

著者

• Berriault, Gina

書誌事項

Women in their beds : new and selected stories

Gina Berriault

Counterpoint, 1997 , c1996

• : pbk.

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This remarkable collection received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Rea Award for the Short Story, a gold medal from the Commonwealth Club of California, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. For four decades Gina Berriault has been writing short stories praised for their elegance, compassion, range, and psychological intelligence. Writers from Raymond Carver to Andre Dubus have championed her work, which has been published in magazines from The Paris Review to Harpers Bazaar. Though she has received many fellowships and prizes, she has been too often overlooked.Suddenly, however, this has changed. In 1997, Berriault captured four of this countrys most prestigious awards: The National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and a gold medal from the Commonwealth Club of California. In addition, the book reviewers in her home state of California bestowed upon her the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. Brigitte Frase, writing for Newsday, seemingly had a premonition when she wrote in December of 1996, Gina Berriault has been writing superbly for [forty] years. Its time she became an overnight sensation.Berriaults deep understanding of human emotions and human predicaments draws us into her stories--a librarian pursued by a homeless man searching for the meaning of his life, a daughter listening to her father as he speaks awkwardly to his heartbroken mistress, a son reintroducing himself to his parents after many years of absence. From her first lines (When Milo Jukovich was 19, he introduced himself to his father) to her last (She heard his breath take over for him and, in that secretive way the sleeper knows nothing about, carry on his life) her narrative sense and her eye for detail astound.She is a writer of uncommon range, her moods sometimes distanced and ironic, other times achingly raw and direct. She has said that she is indebted to the Russians--Chekhov, Gogol, Tolstoy,and Turgenev--for her literary inheritance, but she rejects every way of categorizing her writing. I find my sustenance in the outward, she says, in the wealth of humankind everywhere, and do not wish to be thought of as a Jewish writer or a feminist writer or as a Californian writer or as a leftwing writer or categorized by any interpretation. I find it liberating to roam wherever my heart and my mind guide me.

目次

• Women in Their Beds
• Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?
• A Dream of Fair Women
• Soul and Money
• The Island of Ven
• Lives of the Saints
• Stolen Pleasures
• The Overcoat
• Zenobia
• The Woman in the Rose-Colored Dress
• The Infinite Passion of Expectation
• Nights in the Gardens of Spain
• Bastille Day
• God and the Article Writer
• Wilderness Fire
• The Bystander
• Death of a Lesser Man
• The Search for J. Kruper
• The Birthday Party
• The Cove
• Sublime Child
• Around the Dear Ruin
• The Diary of K.W.
• The Stone Boy
• Anna Lisas Nose
• Works of the Imagination
• The Mistress
• Lonesome Road
• Myra
• The Houses of the City
• Nocturne
• Like a Motherless Child
• The Science of Life
• Felis Catus
• The Light at Birth.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA50465906
• ISBN:
  • 1887178384
• LCCN: 95051079
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Washington, D.C.
• ページ数/冊数: viii, 342 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PS3552.E738
  • DC20 : 813/.54