Inventing The Abbotts : And Other Stories

Author: Sue Miller

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  • : 01 May 1987
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Barcode 9780575040250
9780575040250

Local Description

1987. First edition. A fine, unmarked copy in a very good, unclipped d/w with sunfading to the spine.

Description

From Sue Miller, author of the bestselling THE GOOD MOTHER and FAMILY PICTURES, this collection of short stories, INVENTING THE ABBOTTS, explores the treacherously shifting ground of erotic and family relationships with deftness and depth. The title story is about a young man who takes up successively with three daughters of the most fashionable family in town. In other stories, whose characters range from a young girl in the first blush of sexual curiosity to a stricken dowager whose seizures release a brutal and sometimes obscene candor, Sue Miller presents a compelling gallery of contemporary men and women with hungry hearts and dismayed consciences.