A01=Abigail Thomas
adulteress
Author_Abigail Thomas
Category=FBA
Category=FYB
chaotic
collection
dead cobbler
dead lover
dying mother
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eq_bestseller
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_modern-contemporary
eq_nobargain
homeless woman
leaving flowers
linked stories
loneliness
lonely city dwellers
lonely hermit
mexican rooftop singers
murder
new york city
older sister
poignant
pondering the value of his existence
sexually frustrated
stealing
tales of ordinary people
teenage runaway
troubled neighbor
unusual antics
upper west side
urban malaise
virgin
Product details
- ISBN 9781565121898
- Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jan 1998
- Publisher: Workman Publishing
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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With her own special brand of delicate, elliptical, and humorous fiction, Abigail Thomas offers another extraordinary visit with people she knows far better than they know themselves. There's Walter, newly abandoned by his wife; there's Edith, a fiftyish virgin; there's Bunny, taking care of her mother and her mother's boyfriend; and there's Belle, whose married lover dies in the hallway wearing her dead husband Herb's pajama top. Blindly, they encounter one another in ways the reader recognizes are profound even as the characters themselves are unaware. The genius and the art in this collection derives from the possibility that these ships might actually find each other by daylight. If only these four could get together--they'd be so good for each other. "Written with an expert touch, and a wise and tender sensibility. The effect is subtle, strong, and comic."--Charles Baxter, author of BELIEVERS and BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE; "It's hard to think she is capable of writing anything that isn't immediately engaging and a joy to read. Probably someone should publish her shopping lists."--Elizabeth Berg, author of TALK BEFORE SLEEP. A BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB SELECTION
