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Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling (ND Sullivan Prize Short Fiction)
Maura Stanton
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Description for Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling (ND Sullivan Prize Short Fiction)
Hardcover. This volume contains ten darkly funny stories by Maura Stanton. Characters include a girl with a clown phobia who falls in love with Joujou the clown; Gertrude Stein playing ping-pong with the GI's in Paris; and a woman who discovers her dead sister has written a bad novel. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 345.
Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling contains ten darkly funny short stories by Maura Stanton. Anything can happen in this swiftly narrated book, which provides glimpses of Gertrude Stein playing Ping-Pong with a G.I. in Paris during World War II, a famous contemporary writer giving a haircut in a bar in Eureka, California, and Katherine Mansfield struggling to write her final stories in Montana, Switzerland. The characters in Stanton's lively stories try to sort out their lives by telling stories or listening closely to the stories of other people. Two sisters interrogate each other about different versions of the party ... Read more
Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling contains ten darkly funny short stories by Maura Stanton. Anything can happen in this swiftly narrated book, which provides glimpses of Gertrude Stein playing Ping-Pong with a G.I. in Paris during World War II, a famous contemporary writer giving a haircut in a bar in Eureka, California, and Katherine Mansfield struggling to write her final stories in Montana, Switzerland. The characters in Stanton's lively stories try to sort out their lives by telling stories or listening closely to the stories of other people. Two sisters interrogate each other about different versions of the party ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268025557
SKU
V9780268025557
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About Maura Stanton
Maura Stanton is professor of English and creative writing at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of numerous books of poetry and short stories including Cities in the Sun, Glacier Wine, The Country I Come From, and Life Among the Trolls.
Reviews for Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling (ND Sullivan Prize Short Fiction)
“. . . a stunning variety of dark, passionate, reflective stories. Stanton’s glistening strength is her ability to drop intriguing details into her pages that would be red herrings in less skilled writing, but by her hand they become tantalizing tendrils leading to mysterious places beyond her narrative.”
North Dakota Quarterly
North Dakota Quarterly