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- Fourteen remarkable stories that combine strong Western settings with a subtle and distinct female voice.
- About the Author: Maile Meloy is the author of the story collection Half in Love and the novel Liars and Saints, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize.
- 176 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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About the Book
"Half in Love" is the widely acclaimed story collection that inspired "The New York Times" to rave, "A sparkling debut. . . . Here is an author who knows how to jump-start the reader's interest, " and the "Chicago Tribune" to name Maile Meloy "a truly compelling discovery."Book Synopsis
Fourteen remarkable stories that combine strong Western settings with a subtle and distinct female voice. This critically celebrated debut collection marks the exciting beginning of prize-winner Meloy's promising career. Lean and controlled in their narration, abundant and moving in their effects, Maile Meloy's stories introduce a striking talent. Most are set in the modern American West, made vivid and unexpected in Meloy's unsentimental vision; others take us to Paris, wartime London, and Greece, with the same remarkable skill and intuition. In "Four Lean Hounds, ca. 1976," two couples face a complicated grief when one of the four dies. In "Ranch Girl," the college-bound daughter of a ranch foreman must choose which adult world she wants to occupy. In "A Stakes Horse," a woman confronts risk and loss at the racetrack and at home. And in "Aqua Boulevard"--winner of the 2001 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction--an elderly Parisian confronts his mortality. Meloy's command of her characters' voices is breathtaking; their fears and desires are deftly illuminated. Smart, surprising, and evocative, Meloy's brilliantly observed stories fully engage the mind and heart.Review Quotes
"There are times when a writer nails a story the way a diver nails a dive....Half in Love offers up both plain speaking and mystery, subtlety and shock. That hole in the water marks where the final plunge of a story took your heart along with it."-- "The New York Times Book Review"
"Tremendously beautiful. A writer not of promise, but with a fully realized gift."-- "San Diego Union-Tribune"
"A sparkling debut."--The New York Times
"Maile Meloy is a truly compelling discovery."-- "Chicago Tribune"
"She's like Annie Proulx... She writes good stories in a very simple, pared-down style with a real sense of life and human beings in a beautifully simple landscape."--Helen Fielding "The Miami Herald"
About the Author
Maile Meloy is the author of the story collection Half in Love and the novel Liars and Saints, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize. Meloy's stories have been published in The New Yorker, and she has received The Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in California.Dimensions (Overall): 8.35 Inches (H) x 4.96 Inches (W) x .41 Inches (D)
Weight: .33 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Literary
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 176
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Format: Paperback
Author: Maile Meloy
Language: English
Street Date: June 17, 2003
TCIN: 93118315
UPC: 9780743246859
Item Number (DPCI): 247-09-1906
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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