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You have the wrong man
- Title
- You have the wrong man / stories by Maria Flook.
- Author
- Flook, Maria.
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon Books, [1996], ©1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3556.L583 R48 1996 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 241 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Flook's stories enter the raw sanctuaries where men and women connect, and in these eight unveiled liaisons sexual desire is presented in its deepest reaches and its full human scale. In "Rhode Island Fish Company" a woman's maternal instincts run amok and kindle a startling betrayal; in "Prince of Motown" a household enters a crazed bereavement when Marvin Gaye is murdered; in "Lane" a man volunteers a point-by-point confession of threatening, bitter lust.
- These are only a few of the edgy coercions between men and women in stories that illuminate the moral tests and erotic pressures that tear up couples and unhinge families. In writing that is both psychologically precise and funny, relationships are worn down by carnal debts, hardships, and cold-blooded consummations, but these characters find reprieve as Flook evokes their purest motives - not just to survive, but to survive for one another.
- Genre/Form
- Short stories.
- Contents
- Rhode Island Fish Company -- Lane -- You are Here -- The Golden Therapist -- Prince of Motown -- Exchange Street -- Asbestos -- Riders to the Sea.
- ISBN
- 0679431845
- LCCN
- 95026156
- OCLC
- ocm33443534
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries