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Whose World Is This? Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Lee Montgomery

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Montgomerys surprising stories capture moments in womens lives when, pushed to the edge, they teeter between the complete bewilderment of loss and the lurking possibility of found. These are stories that dismantle the fabric of conventions to reveal the real interior worlds of women.

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Montgomery's characters blow drugs and boys, advise friends who are dying of AIDS about pennies in penny loafers, write letters to Caroline Kennedy, and fall in love with movie stars. Some lose themselves to ambivalence while contemplating motherhood; others find themselves soothed when, after hearing of the sudden death of a dear friend they seduce a stranger.
In the story "We Americans," a woman abandoned by her husband grows so vulnerable, she internalizes TV news tragedies by developing hives in the shapes of foreign countries. In the title story, Hannah, a speed freak working the graveyard shift in a nursing home, falls in love with a quadriplegic who void of feelings in his limbs, feel things she cannot. In "Avalanche", an editor to movie stars in Beverly Hills struggles with how to reconcile her own story with the fairy-tale endings of celebrity culture.
Tender, poignant, and at times hilarious, the women in Whose World Is This? turn common notions of love, compassion, and tradition upside down as they show us how vulnerability, although dangerous, is what makes life astonishingly beautiful and reality strangely unreal.

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  • Title Whose World Is This?
  • Author Lee Montgomery
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Iowa Press, Iowa City
  • Publication date 2007-09
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781587296147 / 1587296144
  • Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.18 x 6.08 x 0.34 in (23.32 x 15.44 x 0.86 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007008810
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Booklist, 08/01/2007, Page 41
  • Library Journal, 10/08/2007, Page 0

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Lee Montgomery is the author of The Things between Us: A Memoir. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is the editorial director of Tin House Books and the executive editor of Tin House magazine.

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