Sea Lovers Selected Stories |
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Author:
| Martin, Valerie |
Series title: | Vintage Contemporaries Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-307-73955-1 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2016 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Vintage |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $25.00 |
Book Description:
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Twelve extraordinary short stories from the award-winning, bestselling author of Property that explore human morality and our shared losses and joys, shifting from realism to myth, from the Louisiana bayou to the streets of Rome and beyond. * "Complex and wonderful.... A long, cool drink of water." --The New York Times Book Review In these stories, Martin mines her three literary preoccupations--animals, artists, and metamorphoses--to unforgettable...
More Description Twelve extraordinary short stories from the award-winning, bestselling author of Property that explore human morality and our shared losses and joys, shifting from realism to myth, from the Louisiana bayou to the streets of Rome and beyond. * "Complex and wonderful.... A long, cool drink of water." --The New York Times Book Review
In these stories, Martin mines her three literary preoccupations--animals, artists, and metamorphoses--to unforgettable effect. In "The Consolation of Nature," a family battles a giant rat that has invaded their home. "The Open Door" follows an American poet in Rome, forced to choose between her lover and a world so new it takes her breath away. In "Et in Academic Ego," a seventeen-year-old bayou orphan falls in love with a centaur who transforms her life. And the title story conjures up a hideous mermaid who fatally seduces a fisherman. Sophisticated, incisive, deeply felt and always surprising, Sea Lovers showcases the enduring work of an indispensable writer.