Rebecca Curtis

Twenty Grand

And Other Tales of Love and Money

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this dazzling literary debut, Rebecca Curtis displays the gifts that make her one of the most talented writers of her generation. Her characters--young women struggling to find happiness, love, success, security, and adventure--wait tables, run away from home, fall for married men, betray their friends, and find themselves betrayed as well. In "Hungry Self," a young waitress descends into the basement of a seemingly ordinary Chinese restaurant; in "Twenty Grand," a young wife tries to recover her lost fortune; in "Monsters," one family's paranoia leads to a sacrifice; and in "The Witches," an innocent swim on prom night proves more dangerous than anyone could have imagined. With elegant prose and a wicked sense of humor, these stories reveal Curtis's provocative and uncompromising view of life, one that makes her writing so poignant and irresistible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780061173097
• ISBN-10: 0061173096
• Artikelnr.: 22325798

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Curtis's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, including its debut fiction issue, as well as in Harper's, McSweeney's, and n+1. She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and her work has been selected for The O. Henry Prize Stories. She teaches in the graduate writing program at Columbia University.