What Counts As Love |
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| Author:
| Crotty, Marian |
| Series title: | Iowa Short Fiction Award Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60938-516-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2017 |
| Publisher: | University of Iowa Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $17.00 |
Book Description:
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Longlisted for the 2018 PEN America Literary Awards In these nine stories, Marian Crotty inhabits the lives of people searching for human connection. Her characters, most often young women, are honest, troubled, and filled with longing. The stories are set in Arizona, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the Persian Gulf, and often touch on themes of addiction, class, sexuality, and gender.
What Counts as Love is a...
More Description Longlisted for the 2018 PEN America Literary Awards
In these nine stories, Marian Crotty inhabits the lives of people searching for human connection. Her characters, most often young women, are honest, troubled, and filled with longing. The stories are set in Arizona, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the Persian Gulf, and often touch on themes of addiction, class, sexuality, and gender. What Counts as Love is a poignant, often funny collection that asks us to take it and its characters seriously.