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In this collection of stories, Maggie Shipstead dives into eclectic and vivid settings, from an Olympic village to a deathbed in Paris to a Pacific atoll, and illuminating a cast of indelible characters, Shipstead traverses ordinary and unusual realities with cunning, compassion and wit. In "Ac...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | In this collection of stories, Maggie Shipstead dives into eclectic and vivid settings, from an Olympic village to a deathbed in Paris to a Pacific atoll, and illuminating a cast of indelible characters, Shipstead traverses ordinary and unusual realities with cunning, compassion and wit. In "Acknowledgments," a male novelist reminisces bitterly on the woman who inspired his first novel, attempting to make peace with his humiliations before the book goes to print. In "The Cowboy Tango," spanning decades in the open country of Montana, a triangle of love and self-preservation plays out among an aging rancher called the Otter, his nephew and a young woman named Sammy who works the horses. |
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| Item Description: | "A Borzoi book." |
| Physical Description: | 253 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780525656999 0525656995 |