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Throw Like a Girl

by Jean Thompson

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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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"'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.)

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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.

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Twelve short stories feature an array of female narrators who experience the transition from youthful innocence to experience.
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS

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

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Throw Like a Girl

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jesskkaa1, May 28, 2008 (view all comments by jesskkaa1)
This is a book that has 12 stories about women and every type of problem that women deal with. All kinds of a women are presented including young women, lovers, misstresses, the girlfriend, the wife and the friendless. Each story is a different woman with a different background, some of the stories are told as a story and some are told as if you were actually in the story. This book also gives insight on the types of problems women go through with their families and lover. Although, this book lacks closure in each of the stories it gives insight of what being a woman actually is.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781416541820
Author:
Thompson, Jean
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Subject:
General
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Publication Date:
20070631
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
304
Dimensions:
8.44 x 5.5 in 9.59 oz
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"Publishers Weekly Review" by , "'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.)
"Synopsis" by , 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.
"Synopsis" by , Twelve short stories feature an array of female narrators who experience the transition from youthful innocence to experience.
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