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Lust & Other Storiesby Susan Minot
ISBN
0395488885 / 9780395488881 / 0-395-48888-5
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Language English Edition Hardcover List price $16.95 › Find signed collectible books: 'Lust & Other Stories' |
For all the New York chic which surrounds them, the situations and dilemmas of Susan Minot's women could hardly be more classical. The women know they are going to lose and several of them try to guard themselves against attachment, to stay free, but their hearts are not in it. They know there is not much they can so about it, once a look, a touch, a night out changes everything. It's a bleak situation, but talking about it doesn't appear to help, and writing about it doesn't either, beyond a certain point, soon reached. the terseness of these laconic tales has its own telling decorum' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS. [via]