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Throw Like a Girl: Stories

3.4/5 ( ratings)

A master of short fiction whose "best pieces are as good as it gets in contemporary cction" returns, as Jean Thompson follows her National Book Award finalist collection Who Do You Love with Throw Like a Girl.

Here are twelve new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, arcing from youth to experience. Each one of Thompson's indelible characters -- lovers, wives, friends, and mothers -- speaks her piece -- wry, angry, hopeful -- about the world and women's places in it.

The brat --
The five senses --
It would not make me tremble to see ten thousand fall --
The family Barcus --
Lost --
The inside passage --
Holy Week --
A normal life --
Hunger --
The woman taken in adultery --
Pie of the month --
Throw like a girl

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Release: June 05, 2007

ISBN: 1416541829

ISBN 13: 9781416541820

Throw Like a Girl: Stories

3.4/5 ( ratings)

A master of short fiction whose "best pieces are as good as it gets in contemporary cction" returns, as Jean Thompson follows her National Book Award finalist collection Who Do You Love with Throw Like a Girl.

Here are twelve new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, arcing from youth to experience. Each one of Thompson's indelible characters -- lovers, wives, friends, and mothers -- speaks her piece -- wry, angry, hopeful -- about the world and women's places in it.

The brat --
The five senses --
It would not make me tremble to see ten thousand fall --
The family Barcus --
Lost --
The inside passage --
Holy Week --
A normal life --
Hunger --
The woman taken in adultery --
Pie of the month --
Throw like a girl

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Release: June 05, 2007

ISBN: 1416541829

ISBN 13: 9781416541820

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