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Throw Like A Girl

Stories

By Thompson, Jean

Publishers Summary:
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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ISBN
978-1-41654-182-0
Publisher
Simon & Schuster


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Reviewed on April 15, 2007

Would you stick with a man who had just killed your parents and then travel cross-country with him? Would you hop a ferry to Alaska to forget a love affair with a married man, only to call him from every port? Two characters in this collection of 12 stories do just that. Thompson portrays unfortunate women for whom life is a punishing struggle because they have made bad choices regard...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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