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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Throw Like a Girlby Jean Thompson
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Review:"'The women protagonists of Thompson's hard-hitting latest collection of stories (The Gasoline Wars; 1999 NBA finalist Who Do You Love) have, like the young army wife of 'It Would Not Make Me Tremble to See Ten Thousand Fall,' secret plans to wrest control of their life from husbands, boyfriends and mothers. Kelly Ann Pardee, a high school dropout stuck at home with a child while her army grunt husband is sent to the Middle East, wants to be a warrior, too. The teenage Jessie in 'The Five Senses' has run off to Florida with an older man she is beginning to realize is violent and scary, and yet she is disappointed that her new fugitive existence isn't more exciting than her upper-middle-class life. Older women in these stories have been through the mill — of marriage, adultery, child-rearing. Mid-40s Melanie of 'A Normal Life' marries Chad after a long affair, only to wonder if this new version of her lover is one she wants. In 'Holy Week,' seething sales agent Olivia Snow is too worn down by her job and single mom drudgery to upgrade her 'subemployed musician' boyfriend or realize how at risk her 17-year-old daughter is. Thompson's talent is on full display. (June)' Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review:"If there are 'Jean Thompson characters,' they're us, and never have we been so articulate and worthy of compassion. These stories concrm that no one is beneath her interest, or beyond her sure and seemingly limitless reach."-- David Sedaris Review:"Thompson is a writer of extraordinary intelligence and sensitivity."-- Vince Passaro, O, The Oprah Magazine Review:"Like Raymond Carver, Jean Thompson is fascinated by the sudden and unlikely communion of people. Her characters vary, but she never condescends to them, no matter how hungry their hearts are, no matter how many screws they have loose . . . Her fiction [is] a gold mine."-- Jeff Giles, Newsweek Synopsis:From the celebrated author of "Who Do You Love" comes this collection of 12 new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, describing the change from youth to experience in taut, moving prose. Table of ContentsCONTENTS The Brat The Five Senses It Would Not Make Me Tremble to See Ten Thousand Fall The Family Barcus Lost The Inside Passage Holy Week A Normal Life Hunger The Woman Taken in Adultery Pie of the Month Throw Like a Girl
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