New York: Harcourt Inc., 2001. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 210 pp. Black boards lettered in copper on the spine; headband. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. This story collection contains: Tea; Fur; Her Slow and Steady; Thirty Yards; Rudy's Two Wives; Talking in the Dark; The Quiet at the Bottom of the Pool; and Divining the Waters..

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The stories in Talking in the Dark read like small novels: the worlds they imagine are that layered and complete. Each examination of the underside of love-from endurance and betrayal to sacrifice, obsession, and abandonment-evokes images of lowered voices and shared confessions. The deepest chords of intimacy echo throughout this moving and, finally, hopeful book. A single mother, haunted by loneliness and self-doubt, sleeps with her daughter's teenage boyfriend, and, in a scene of frightening family tension, turns her rage not toward the husband who abandoned her, but toward her daughter. A young tennis player experiencing her first love becomes the victim of a young man's dangerous obsession. An elderly widower becomes the target of a materialistic younger woman. Laura Glen Louis's language is spare and precise, sometimes filled with the subterfuges of desire and need, sometimes vibrant with the hope of love's birth or rebirth, sometimes counterpointed by tenderness and alienation. Hers is a new voice, but one that arrives fully mature--incisive, unsparing, and enlightening.

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Bookseller: W. Fraser Sandercombe (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 230266
Title: TALKING IN THE DARK - Stories
Author: Louis, Laura Glen
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+
Jacket Condition: Very Good+
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0151005222
ISBN 13: 9780151005222
Publisher: Harcourt Inc.
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2001
Size: 8vo
Keywords: literary; small press; magazine; journal; journalism; modern fiction; katherine anne porter prize;
Bookseller catalogs: Literature;

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