| Throw Like a Girl Contributor(s): Thompson, Jean (Author) |
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ISBN: 1416541829 ISBN-13: 9781416541820 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: From the celebrated author of "Who Do You Love" comes this collection of 12 new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, describing the change from youth to experience in taut, moving prose. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Sports |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2006051259 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.52" W x 8.46" (0.65 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A master of short fiction whose best pieces are as good as it gets in contemporary cction (Newsday) returns, as Jean Thompson follows her National Book Award finalist collection Who Do You Love with Throw Like a Girl. Here are twelve new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, arcing from youth to experience. Each one of Thompson's indelible characters -- lovers, wives, friends, and mothers -- speaks her piece -- wry, angry, hopeful -- about the world and women's places in it. |
Contributor Bio(s): Thompson, Jean: - Jean Thompson is a novelist and short story writer. Her works include the novels A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl, She Poured Out Her Heart, The Humanity Project, The Year We Left Home, City Boy, Wide Blue Yonder, The Woman Driver, and My Wisdom and the short story collections The Witch and Other Tales Re-Told, Do Not Deny Me, Throw Like a Girl, Who Do You Love (a National Book Award finalist), Little Face and Other Stories, and The Gasoline Wars. Thompson's short fiction has been published in many magazines and journals, including the New Yorker, and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. Thompson has been the recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, among other accolades, and has taught creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Reed College, Northwestern University, and other colleges and universities. She lives in Urbana, Illinois. |