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A crowning collection from the award-winning short story writer
Pamela Painter. Pamela Painter's short stories have been praised by
Margot Livesey for their "wicked intelligence and ruthless humor."
In Fabrications, which brings together 7 new and 24 selected
stories, characters struggle to avoid the chaos in their lives,
but-driven by addictions and appetites-often bring on disaster.
Nobody is ordinary in Painter's stories. A burglar can't believe
what he is asked to do by the woman whose jewelry he is stealing.
Hitchhikers, hell-bent on murder, are thwarted by the miracle of
story-telling. A wife can make rooms-and her husband-disappear, but
saves the family dog. A young woman insists on the romance of being
married in an Elvis Presley chapel, but for the wrong reasons.
Fabrications is a testament to Painter's lyric skill and
psychological insight across her career. Praise for Previous Books
by Pamela Painter "These wonderful stories-about dogs and
housewives, scholars and teenagers-vividly demonstrate Painter's
wicked intelligence and ruthless humor and her utterly democratic
interest in all our faults and foibles. . . . [A] quirky, sexy,
irresistible collection."-Margot Livesey "Pamela Painter's stories
are warm, wise, funny, and ultimately true to the way we live
now-trying to carry on in the face of things breaking down around
us. Reading each story is a thrill-for the full-blown lives, astute
details, exact metaphors, and pitch-perfect dialogue. She's like a
carpenter-nailing it, again and again."-Bobbie Ann Mason "This is
fiction of immense beauty, full of wisdom and informed by rare
grace."-Steve Yarbrough
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Pangyrus One (Paperback)
Greg Harris, Anne Bernays; Edited by Pamela Painter
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R358
Discovery Miles 3 580
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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