Terrific Mother (Faber Stories)
Editorial FABER & FABER
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- Editorial FABER & FABER
- ISBN13 9780571351831
- ISBN10 0571351832
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 80
- Col.lecció FABER STORIES #
- Any Edició 2019
- Idioma Anglès
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Literatura AnglesaTerrific Mother (Faber Stories)
Editorial FABER & FABER
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Detalls del llibre
Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goes to her friends' Labor Day picnic and accidentally kills their baby.
The shock of this scene is expertly packed into two brief paragraphs. What follows is Adrienne's retreat from life and her attempt to return to it.
Her sharp scepticism about the people around her is achingly funny. Yet beyond derision there is forgiveness and something along the lines of love.
Lorrie Moore, after serving for almost three decades as the Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Moore has received numerous grants and awards, from among others: the Lannan Foundation, the National Books Critics Circle, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her most recent novel, A Gate at the Stairs, was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize.