Make Me Do Things
Victoria Redel
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Description
In eleven original, surprising and deliciously dark stories, Victoria Redel moves effortlessly between men's and women's perspectives in stories that explore marriage, divorce and parenthood. A newly divorced mother stumbles her way back into single life. A young man and his girlfriend clean out his dead mother's overstuffed home. A woman struggles to hide her affair from a doting husband and inquisitive daughter. A man descends into a drug-fueled dream as he imagines losing his pregnant wife to a historical, nineteenth century figure. Redel indelibly captures the ways we love, the ways we yearn and the ways we sabotage each. Throughout the collection, children struggle to make sense of the adult world's uncertainties as husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, find themselves pressed up against their own limits, "the exaltations and treasons of one's own mothy heart." Redel has again done what Grace Paley said of Redel's first collection, "Only a poet could have written this prose. Only a storyteller could keep a reader turning these pages so greedily."
Product Details
Price
$17.95
$16.69
Publisher
Four Way Books
Publish Date
October 01, 2013
Pages
200
Dimensions
6.08 X 8.97 X 0.69 inches | 0.77 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781935536376
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Author of four books of fiction and three poetry collections, VICTORIA REDEL teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in NYC.