In 'Tra il Devoto et Profano' and especially in the title story, [Barbara Sutton] evokes the lost urban world of Nathanael West, while in others, like 'Risk Merchants, ' she wryly demonstrates how times--and fiction--have changed. . . . Sutton's fiction is about impermanence and abandonment, and at her best, in a story like 'Rabbit Punch, ' she enlivens these themes with a gutsy combination of pathos and personal terror.--New York Times Book Review
Barbara Sutton's quirky debut collection tracks the emotional journeys of characters struggling to find harmonious relationships with the people they are expected to love and be loved by. All too often, for Sutton's characters, such supposedly sacred relationships disappoint. In the end, it is not the loved ones who are loved, but the strangers met through chance encounters - the interim mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, husbands and wives. Such unlikely friendships weave their way through Sutton's stories and create sometimes funny and sometimes tragic reflections on the accidental and often fleeting nature of love. Through Sutton's vibrant voices we meet a memorable and varied cast of characters, all suffering the same fate. From the adolescent Marta, who finds a substitute for her absent mother and father in her grandmother's improbable and eccentric relationship with the parish priest, to the emotionally unstable, unemployed Virginia Woolf scholar who finds kinship with a belligerent, equally unstable, nine-year-old boy, Sutton delivers authentic scenes of severe isolation coupled with brief moments of resplendent harmony. It is these transitory moments, these glimpses into the elusive world of light, that manage to sustain our hope.
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Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Rock Solid Books, Jenison, MI, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. A tight, bright edition, new from our store, signed by Barbara Sutton. Signed by Author(s). Nº de ref. del artículo: BL6055
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Librería: Nilbog Books, Portland, ME, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing). In a New dust jacket. This copy is Signed y the author on the title page. Winner of the Flannery O'connor Award for Short Fiction.There is a gold seal to that effect on the front cover. Signed by Author(s). Nº de ref. del artículo: 054071
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Librería: Wayward Books, South dartmouth, MA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Fine. First Edition. Signed, not inscribed by the author on the title page. Includes promotional information from the publisher. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book. Nº de ref. del artículo: 008323
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Librería: Collectors Bookstore, Antwerpen, Belgica
Paperback. Condición: Fine. The Send-Away Girl by Barbara Sutton. Published by University Of Georgia Press in 2004. Paperback ISBN:9780820326559. Collectible item in very fine condition. Nº de ref. del artículo: 0820326559
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