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Book:Name: Maile Meloy - Half in Love- Stories (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 1.68 MB
Description:Title: Half in Love
Author: Maile Meloy
Language: English
Year: 2018
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9788511021219
Total pages: 300 str.
Download from RapidGatorFourteen remarkable stories that combine strong Western settings with a subtle and distinct female voice. This critically celebrated debut collection marks the exciting beginning of prize-winner Meloy's promising career.
Lean and controlled in their narration, abundant and moving in their effects, Maile Meloy's stories introduce a striking talent. Most are set in the modern American West, made vivid and unexpected in Meloy's unsentimental vision; others take us to Paris, wartime London, and Greece, with the same remarkable skill and intuition.
In "Four Lean Hounds, ca. 1976," two couples face a complicated grief when one of the four dies. In "Ranch Girl," the college-bound daughter of a ranch foreman must choose which adult world she wants to occupy. In "A Stakes Horse," a woman confronts risk and loss at the racetrack and at home. And in "Aqua Boulevard"-winner of the 2001 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction-an elderly Parisian confronts his mortality....
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