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Item Details
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DO NOT FORSAKE ME, OH MY DARLING
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| By: |
Maura Stanton |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£85.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
026802555X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780268025557 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
28 November, 2001 |
| Pages: |
128 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
"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 that changed their lives forever. A young woman entertains and shocks her friends in a cafe with a funny story about her first love affair. A landlady tries to reconstruct the life of a Sicilian immigrant whose ashes she finds in a trailer.In capturing with wit and sensitivity the struggles of its characters to make sense of the many strange and ordinary occurrences of everyday life, "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling "reminds us that we are all, in some sense, characters in many of life s different stories." |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Notre Dame Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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