Fruit of the Month (The Iowa short fiction award) - Hardcover

Frucht, Abby

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877451753 ISBN 13: 9780877451754

Verlag: University of Iowa Press, 1988

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Book by Frucht Abby

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This fine debut of twelve stories explores a topography of the interior, probing the thoughts, motivations, and little-understood impulses behind moments of aggression, jealousy, and loneliness. Turning her eye on the academic landscape as well as the workaday world, Frucht keenly observes people forging friendships, groping for greater self-understanding, and attempting to find meaning in their lives and loves.

Whether writing about a couple trying to conceive a much-wanted child or a lonely husband mourning the changing political attitudes of his wife, Frucht brings her characters and their lives into memorable focus. She builds a fictional world that resonates with the immediate and the familiar.

Although many books of contemporary fiction document the ways people often fail to communicate, the essential quality of Abby Frucht's characters is that they do communicate—connect—and gain part of what they want from life as a result. These stories are never about despair without also being about hope. They speak to each other as playfully and accidentally as memories do.

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• Verlag: University of Iowa Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0877451753
• ISBN 13: 9780877451754
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 167