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Christine Schutt
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 132 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In one eponymous novella and ten stories, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. From an alcoholic widowed actress living in desert seclusion to a young mother whose rejection of her child has terrible consequences, from a newlywed couple who ignore the violent warnings of a painter burned by love to an eerie portrait of erotic obsession, each story is an imagistic snapshot of what it...
2) Florida
Author
Publisher
TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
156 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Alice Fivey, fatherless since she was seven, is left in the care of her relatives at ten when her love-wearied mother loses custody of her and enters "the San," submitting to years of psychiatric care. She is moved from place to place, remaining still while others mold her into someone different from her namesake mother. Alice consoles herself with books, and she herself becomes a storyteller who must build her own home word by word. Florida is her...
3) All souls
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As Astra Dell, a senior suffering from cancer, fights for her life in the hospital, her privileged classmates at Siddons, a posh private school in New York City, struggle with their own concerns over boys, teachers, and exams.
