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Goodnight, Beautiful Women
Anna Noyes
出版
Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
, 2016-06-07
主題
Fiction / Women
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
ISBN
0802190421
9780802190420
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pANeCwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Interconnected stories of women of all ages. “If the fiction of Stephen King and Alice Munro had a literary love child, it might look like this” (
The Washington Post
).
Moving along the Maine coast and beyond, the stories in
Goodnight, Beautiful Women
bring us into the sultry, mysterious inner lives of New England women and girls as they navigate the dangers and struggles of their outer worlds. With novelistic breadth and a quicksilver emotional intelligence, Noyes explores the ruptures and vicissitudes of growing up and growing old, and shines a light on our most uncomfortable impulses while masterfully charting the depths of our murky desires.
A woman watches her husband throw—one by one—their earthly possessions into the local quarry, before vanishing himself; two girls from very different social classes find themselves deep in the throes of a punishing affair; a motherless teenager is sexually awakened in the aftermath of a local trauma; and a woman’s guilt from a childhood lie about her intellectually disabled cousin reverberates into her married years.
Dark and brilliant, rhythmic and lucid,
Goodnight, Beautiful Women
marks the arrival of a fearless and unique new young voice in American fiction.
“Anna Noyes’s stunning debut collection concerns girls and women struggling to break away, dealing with burdens like mental illness and neglect that threaten to transform and define them.” —
The
Wall Street Journal
, “The Season’s Most Exciting Fiction Reads”