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From Kate Chopin s turn-of-the-century Lousiana, to Gertrude Stein s war-time Paris, to Alice Walker s modern-day America, here are twenty-six short stories by the finest women writers of the twentieth century. These well-known and well-loved authors people their stories with vibrant female characters, from all over the world and all walks of life. Separately, each of these stories bears the mark of a skilled writer. Together, they celebrate woman in her many roles as daughter, mother, worker, wife, lover, sister, and friend. In Tillie Olsen s classic, I Stand Here Ironing, a single mother considers her success in raising a daughter. In Eudora Welty s The Worn Path, an African-American grandmother meets with grace the impudence of a young, white man. In Alice Munro s The Office, a wife who has too many distractions to write at home rents a room in town, only to be constantly interrupted by her landlord. Superbly written, and at once poignant and ironic, these insightful stories capture the essence of being a woman in all its similarity, and all its diversity."

John Burnside's remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song. These are poems of thwarted love and disappointment, of raw desire, of the stalking beast, 'eye-teeth/and muzzle/coated with blood'; poems that recognise 'we have too much to gain from the gods, and this is why/they fail to love us'; poems that tell of an obsessive lover coming to grief in a sequence that echoes the old murder ballads, or of a hunter losing himself in the woods while pursuing an unknown and possibly unknowable quarry. Drawing on sources as various as the paintings of Pieter Brueghel and the lyrics of Delta blues, Black Cat Bone examines varieties of love, faith, hope and illusion, to suggest an unusual possibility: that when the search for what we expected to find - in the forest or in our own hearts - ends in failure, we can now begin the hard and disciplined quest for what is actually there. Full of risk and wonder, Black Women and Fiction: Stories by and about Women pdf Cat Bone shows the range of Burnside's abilities, but also strikes out for new territories.

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Author: Susan Cahill
Number of Pages: 480 pages
Published Date: 01 Feb 2002
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Country: none
Language: English
ISBN: 9780451528278
Download Link: Click Here
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