Stories of Motherhood

分类: 图书,进口原版,Literature & Fiction(文学与虚构类),Genre Fiction(类型小说),Anthologies,
品牌: Diana Secker Tesdell
基本信息出版社:Everyman's Library (2012年4月3日)精装:352页正文语种:英语ISBN:0307957799条形码:9780307957795商品尺寸:12.2 x 2.8 x 18.8 cm商品重量:445 gASIN:0307957799商品描述内容简介Now joining Everyman’s Library—the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world’s greatest works—is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure.
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Stories of Motherhoodgathers more than a century of literary celebrations of mothers of all ages. These short stories by a wide range of great writers illuminate the many facets of our most elemental human relationship, from birth to death and everything in between.
Lydia Davis and Harold Brodkey explore dizzying encounters between young mothers and their newborn babies, while Colm Tóibín and Lorrie Moore portray adult children grieving for their lost mothers. Ron Carlson probes the forging of a bond with an adopted infant, Barbara Kingsolver gives us a sparring mother-and-daughter pair whose overlapping pregnancies lead them to common ground, and Aimee Bender offers a loopy fable of maternal connection in which a woman gives birth to her own mother. Willa Cather, Ernest Gaines, and Louise Erdrich dramatize the strength and sacrifices of mothers in very different walks of life, while Anita Desai and Amy Tan chart the gulf of misunderstanding and cultural change that can divide mothers and their offspring in any time or place—and the ways love can sometimes find to cross it.
These and such other masters of the short story as Sherwood Anderson, Hortense Calisher, and Alice Munro write memorably about mothers—having, losing, leaving, and loving them—in modes that range from lyrical to satirical, from heartbreaking to hilarious.作者简介Diana Secker Tesdell edited the Everyman's Pocket Classics anthologiesChristmas Stories, Love Stories, Stories of the Sea, Dog Stories, Cat Stories, New York Stories, andBedtime Stories.