Twenty Grand e-bog
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In this dazzling literary debut, Rebecca Curtis displays the gifts that make her one of the most talented writers of her generation. Her charactersyoung women struggling to find happiness, love, success, security, and adventurewait tables, run away from home, fall for married men, betray their friends, and find themselves betrayed as well.In "e;Hungry Self,"e; a young waitress descends ...
E-bog
84,12 DKK
Forlag
HarperCollins e-books
Udgivet
13 oktober 2009
Længde
272 sider
Genrer
Fiction: general and literary
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780061856716
In this dazzling literary debut, Rebecca Curtis displays the gifts that make her one of the most talented writers of her generation. Her charactersyoung women struggling to find happiness, love, success, security, and adventurewait tables, run away from home, fall for married men, betray their friends, and find themselves betrayed as well.In "e;Hungry Self,"e; a young waitress descends into the basement of a seemingly ordinary Chinese restaurant; in "e;Twenty Grand,"e; a young wife tries to recover her lost fortune; in "e;Monsters,"e; one family's paranoia leads to a sacrifice; and in "e;The Witches,"e; an innocent swim on prom night proves more dangerous than anyone could have imagined. With elegant prose and a wicked sense of humor, these stories reveal Curtis's provocative and uncompromising view of life, one that makes her writing so poignant and irresistible.