Synopses & Reviews
The Struggle for Happiness is a collection of loosely interwoven stories that explore the condition of a series of finely drawn characters and their various desires-desires for love, belonging, home, and happiness. Ranging in tone from utopian visions to stark realism and populated by a unique collection of women-from the guitarist whose supposedly dead lover turns up at one of her concerts, to the professor who has lost her ability to trust in anything; from the psychic at a popular gay resort, to the critic and would-be writer-the pieces in
The Struggle for Happiness are sure to delight and astonish longtime fans of Ruthann Robson and new readers alike.
Review
"The author paints a compelling picture of two very rich characters whose lives are destined to collide...[The story] builds to an exciting peak and by the end the reader is hooked." --
Library Journal on a/k/a"Robson immerses us in language that tests its own limits even while delighting in them." --Lambda Book Report on The Struggle for Happiness
"Slowly, tantalizingly, this well-crafted novel weaves the threads of these women's lives together, divulging a bit more background here, a chance encounter there...fascinating." --Booklist on a/k/a
Synopsis
In this collection of loosely interwoven stories, Ruthann Robson once again demonstrates her remarkably vivid imagination and keen insight into human nature. Each story explores the outsider status of Robson's finely drawn characters and their yearnings for belonging, family, love, and happiness -- and in doing so portrays a view of modern lesbian life. Robson's short fiction is bound to provide a tantalizing experience to uninitiated and familiar readers alike.
Table of Contents
black squirrels
The Death of the Subject
re·view
His Sister
Atlantis V
Women's Music
pas de deux
Close to Utopia
Acknowledgments