Mothers
Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood
New York : North Point Press, 1996.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 343 pages ; 21 cm
Twenty stories on contemporary motherhood. In Kate Braverman's Pagan Night, a mother debates whether to kill her unwanted child, while in Perri Klass' For Women Everywhere, a pregnant woman declines to be a tattletale by identifying the father.
Contents:
Before / Mary Grimm -- Another marvelous thing / Laurie Colwin -- For women everywhere / Perri Klass -- Pagan night / Kate Braverman -- Baby pictures / Molly Giles -- Separation / Mary Gordon -- The trouble with Sophie / Perri Klass -- You'll be crying in a minute / Ronnie Sandroff -- King of the sky / Roxana Robinson -- Quality time / Barbara Kingsolver -- Starlight / Marian Thurm -- Chances with Johnson / Paula K. Gover -- Deeds of love and rage / Marsha Lee Berkman -- The instinct for bliss / Melissa Pritchard -- Poltergeists / Jane Shapiro -- The daguerreotype / Julia Whitty -- In the gloaming / Alice Elliott Dark -- Swimming to the top of the rain / J. California Cooper -- Leaving home / Sue Miller -- Zoo bus / Eileen FitzGerald.
Subjects:
Mother and child -- Fiction.
Short stories, American.
American fiction -- Women authors.
Motherhood -- Fiction.
Women -- Fiction.
Mother and child -- Fiction.
Short stories, American.
American fiction -- Women authors.
Motherhood -- Fiction.
Women -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0865474982
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Includes bibliographical references and index.