Women and Fiction : Stories by and about Women
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0451528271
- ISBN 13
- 9780451528278
- Seller
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About This Item
Synopsis
From Kate Chopin’s turn-of-the-century Lousiana, to Gertrude Stein’s war-time Paris, to Alice Walker’s modern-day America, here are twenty-six short stories by the finest women writers of the twentieth century. These well-known and well-loved authors people their stories with vibrant female characters, from all over the world and all walks of life. Separately, each of these stories bears the mark of a skilled writer. Together, they celebrate woman in her many roles—as daughter, mother, worker, wife, lover, sister, and friend. In Tillie Olsen’s classic, “I Stand Here Ironing,” a single mother considers her success in raising a daughter. In Eudora Welty’s “The Worn Path,” an African-American grandmother meets with grace the impudence of a young, white man. In Alice Munro’s “The Office,” a wife who has too many distractions to write at home rents a room in town, only to be constantly interrupted by her landlord. Superbly written, and at once poignant and ironic, these insightful stories capture the essence of being a woman—in all its similarity, and all its diversity.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4491745-6
- Title
- Women and Fiction : Stories by and about Women
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0451528271
- ISBN 13
- 9780451528278
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- February 1, 2002
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