| The Gift of Women Contributor(s): McWhirter, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 1550964259 ISBN-13: 9781550964257 Publisher: Exile Editions OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.9" W x 7.9" (0.48 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: George McWhirter grounds his delightful characters in the real, while his sharp wit and creative scenarios border on the fantastical: a woman adopts a dolphin-man; an Irish madam runs a railroad bordello in the desert; a devoted husband drives his childless, belly-dancing wife to Greek tavernas with the ambition to quicken their lagging fertility; a Kurdish barber has a cure for hair loss, but not the loss of his wife and family in Iraq; a Mexican campesino swears his machete-severed ear is a sea shell tuned to the Pacific Ocean. The Gift of Women is about religion and sexuality, the surreal and the magical, a tale-telling of earthy and incendiary women, capable of setting a man, a valley, and an entire island on fire. |