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Book, 2007
Current format, Book, 2007, First Simon & Schuster paperback edition, Available .
Book, 2007
Current format, Book, 2007, First Simon & Schuster paperback edition, Available . Offered in 0 more formats
Twelve new stories by the author of Who Do You Love evaluate the secrets of womanhood as revealed by an array of female narrators who experience the transition from youthful innocence to experience. Original. 25,000 first printing. Twelve short stories feature an array of female narrators who experience the transition from youthful innocence to experience. A master of short fiction whose "best pieces are as good as it gets in contemporary cction" (Newsday) returns, as Jean Thompson follows her National Book Award finalist collection Who Do You Love with Throw Like a Girl.
Here are twelve new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, arcing from youth to experience. Each one of Thompson's indelible characters -- lovers, wives, friends, and mothers -- speaks her piece -- wry, angry, hopeful -- about the world and women's places in it.
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