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Author Desiree Cooper explores the complex archetype of the mother in all of her incarnations. In a collage of meditative stories, women find themselves wedged between their own yearnings and their roles as daughters, sisters, grandmothers, and wives. With her lyrical and carefully crafted prose, Co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cooper, Desiree (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Social life and customs.
Motherhood.
Mother and child.
Femmes > Moeurs et coutumes > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Mere et enfant > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Maternite > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Women > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Mother and child > Fiction.
Motherhood > Fiction.
Nouvelles.
Short stories.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
short stories.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Witching hour
  • Feeding the lions
  • Away from the woodsman
  • Ichthyophobe
  • One candle left
  • Laughter and caprice
  • Queen of the Nile
  • Reporting for duty, 1959
  • Know the mother
  • Princess Lily
  • Cartoon blue
  • Night coming
  • Mourning chair
  • Ceiling
  • Origins of sacrifice
  • In the Ginza
  • Home for the holidays
  • Fifteen items or less
  • Soft landing
  • Something falls in the night
  • Leftovers
  • On the rim
  • The disappearing girl
  • Graveyard love
  • Nocturne
  • Postbellum love story
  • Second sleep
  • To the bone
  • Requiem for a dress
  • Open sky
  • The massage.

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