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Excitable Women, Damaged Men
Robert Boyers
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Description for Excitable Women, Damaged Men
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 331.
These astonishing stories deal with people in crisis or at turning points in their lives. Possessed by moods they barely understand, these characters confront moments of choice that determine their identities or self-worth. Typically, they are not equal to such moments, and the stories, which range from Palm Beach to Paris to a New York hotel room, trace the designs, delusions and sometimes painful fluttering of souls in turmoil.
These astonishing stories deal with people in crisis or at turning points in their lives. Possessed by moods they barely understand, these characters confront moments of choice that determine their identities or self-worth. Typically, they are not equal to such moments, and the stories, which range from Palm Beach to Paris to a New York hotel room, trace the designs, delusions and sometimes painful fluttering of souls in turmoil.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Turtle Point Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Chappaqua, United States
ISBN
9781885586407
SKU
V9781885586407
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99-15
About Robert Boyers
Robert Boyers is editor of the quarterly Salmagundi, Tisch Professor of Arts and Letters at Skidmore College, and Director of the New York State Writers' Institute. He writes regularly on contemporary arts and culture for The New Republic, and his essays on politics and culture are widely published. He lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Reviews for Excitable Women, Damaged Men
"An important book...Even his detractors will not read such disparate novels as Greene's The Quiet American or Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle in quite the same way again. This, as much as anything else, is what 'critical authority' finally means." - The Georgia Review "Boyers has written a compelling study, one that convincingly demonstrates that the political novel is a category ... Read more