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The Source of Life and Other Stories Hardback - 2012

by Beth Bosworth

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Post-divorce dating is one more cause for celebration (or a quick call in to the police) in Beth Bosworth's revelatory new book, The Source of Life and Other Stories. The spine of this collection is a series of linked stories about Ruth Stein, a Brooklyn author whose first book has exposed her father's abuses; while the voice here, speaking across a lifetime, ranges from bittersweet to humorous to lethal. In other stories Bosworth's narrators--a mother left to care for her son's suicidal dog, an editor haunted by a dog-eared manuscript--seem to grab hold of the reins and run off with their fates. Meanwhile Bosworth explores the extended family, the bonds of friendship, an apocalyptic Vermont, the rank yet redeemable Gowanus Canal; also rites of passage, race relations, divorce, middle-aged romance, dementia, funerals, alcoholism, and the Jewish religion. Reality is just another stumbling block for Bosworth's characters, who might help themselves but don't always choose to. There are leaps of faith here, nonetheless, as the collection dispenses a kind of narrative psychotropic for survival and redemption, with a chaser of humor mixed in.

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  • Title The Source of Life and Other Stories
  • Author Beth Bosworth
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 218
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh
  • Publication date 2012-09-28
  • ISBN 9780822944195 / 0822944197
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 1 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Dixon
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012022370
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Publishers Weekly, 11/19/2012, Page 0

About the author

Beth Bosworth has taught at the New School for Social Research, CUNY's NYC Technical College, and for many years at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, where she is also founding editor of the Saint Ann's Review. Her publications include a novel, Tunneling, and a collection of short stories, A Burden of Earth. Her stories have appeared in the Kenyon Review, the Seneca Review, Forward, IMAGE, Hanging Loose, Guernica, and elsewhere.
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