Wake.
by Beth Goldner
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1582432694
- ISBN 13
- 9781582432694
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About This Item
Counterpoint, 2003. Ex-Library. Trade Paperback. Very Good. GREAT BOOK! NO SPINE CREASES & MILD WEAR ON LAMINATED COVER. A FEW LIBRARY STAMPS, NO MARKINGS IN TEXT. Description: In her first collection of short stories, Beth Goldner looks at loss-of love, of health, of life-through the lives of ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances . The women of Wake are suffering-or have suffered-a profound loss, loss that has left them seeking renewal or perhaps just escape. Sometimes they long for a husband, a baby, a trinket, sometimes for something far more elusive. In the title story, two sisters are slowly losing their parents to mental illness. In "Cardiff-by-the-Sea," a man who lost his sight in Vietnam is reborn through a new relationship with a daughter he didn't know he had. In "Plan B," a woman loses her husband to an affair with a much younger woman-and loses her grip on sanity at the same time. In "Outcomes," we meet a hospice worker who steals an inconsequential token from the patients she watches die, her own strange, unethical, but intimate ritual to the life cycle. This bravura performance from a fresh literary voice, bringing together a diversity of characters in various stages of life, will touch and surprise readers as it reveals some of life's smallest but most rewarding possibilities.
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- Seller
- Cuyahoga Valley Book Company (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 16988
- Title
- Wake.
- Author
- Beth Goldner
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Ex-Library
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1582432694
- ISBN 13
- 9781582432694
- Publisher
- Counterpoint
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
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