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-- First paperback edition. -- A mother teaches her son how to kiss. A father and his grown daughter share secrets while sharing their bodies. A woman finds she cannot experience her lover's touch without succumbing to intensely erotic recollections of a past lover. Webs of memory, oblique emotion and immediate sensation -- spun in prose that is spare, fevered, oblique and beautiful -- Nightwork's tales tease out the sexual and the violent imbedded in the mundane. -- Christine Schutt lives and works in New York City. This is her first book. -- First published by Knopf ('96).

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-- First paperback edition. -- A mother teaches her son how to kiss. A father and his grown daughter share secrets while sharing their bodies. A woman finds she cannot experience her lover's touch without succumbing to intensely erotic recollections of a past lover. Webs of memory, oblique emotion and immediate sensation -- spun in prose that is spare, fevered, oblique and beautiful -- Nightwork's tales tease out the sexual and the violent imbedded in the mundane. -- Christine Schutt lives and works in New York City. This is her first book. -- First published by Knopf ('96).
Autorenporträt
CHRISTINE SCHUTT is the author of the short-story collection Nightwork. Her work, which has garnered an O. Henry Prize and a Pushcart Prize, is published widely in literary journals. Schutt lives and teaches in New York City.