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Crash Diet (92 Edition)

by Jill Mccorkle

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"Invigorating . . . Savagely effective . . . Displays the same wit and ironic compassion that gained so many fans for her novels."
--The New York Times Book Review

Modern stories for modern times, Crash Diet is at once brilliant and bitter, happy and heartbreaking. In eleven stories, acclaimed novelist Jill McCorkle tells the varied tales of today's southern women, the lives they end up leading, and the loves that distract them. Sandra knows that the best revenge is her ex-husband's credit card; Ruthie is stuck owning a motel that the highway has bypassed; Anna is a widow who goes to airports and looks in on other people's lives; Bunny waits eagerly for her absent sister's postcards for advice on how to live.

Stuck in the slow lane, gunning their motors, they are women living the real life, hoping things will get better, but surprised when they occasionally do.

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Winner of the New England Booksellers Award for Fiction in 1993. "Invigorating . . . . Savagely effective . . . . Displays the same wit and ironic compassion that gained so many fans for (Jill McCorkle's) novels".--"The New York Times Book Review". "Haunting, beautifully crafted . . . . Relentlessly funny".--"Los Angeles Times Book Review".
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Table of Contents

Crash diet — Man watcher — Gold mine — First Union blues — Departures — Comparison shopping — Migration of the love bugs — Waiting for hard times to end — Words gone bad — Sleeping Beauty, revised — Carnival lights.

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ISBN:
9780449912546
Subtitle:
Stories
Author:
McCorkle, Jill
Author:
McCorkle, Jill
Publisher:
Ballantine Books
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Short Stories (Anthologies)
Subject:
Short stories
Subject:
Southern states
Subject:
Women -- Southern States.
Edition Description:
Ballatine Bks T
Series Volume:
312
Publication Date:
October 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
228
Dimensions:
8.29x5.49x.59 in. .67 lbs.
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"Synopsis" by , Winner of the New England Booksellers Award for Fiction in 1993. "Invigorating . . . . Savagely effective . . . . Displays the same wit and ironic compassion that gained so many fans for (Jill McCorkle's) novels".--"The New York Times Book Review". "Haunting, beautifully crafted . . . . Relentlessly funny".--"Los Angeles Times Book Review".
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