| Description |
165 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Winner of the 2011 Grace Paley Prize in short fiction |
| Contents |
My Escapee -- Posthumous fragments of Veronica Penn -- Examination -- Sink home -- Salvo -- Celebrants -- Help -- Privations -- Shelter -- Civilizing effect. |
| Summary |
Delicate and assured, the stories in My escapee illuminate unseen forces in women's lives: the shameful thought, the stifled hope, the subterranean stresses of marriage, friendship, and family. Grappling with lost memories, escaped time, the longing to be loved, and the instinct for autonomy, the stories peer inside their characters' minds to their benign delusions, their triumphs and defeats -- Provided by the publisher. |
| Subject |
Women -- Fiction.
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Women -- Psychology -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| ISBN |
9781558499867 cloth alkaline paper |
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1558499865 cloth alkaline paper |
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