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Certain People

Certain People

Allen, Roberta

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Series: Coffee-To-Go Short-Short Story

EroticaGeneral Fiction

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ISBN10: 1566890527
ISBN13: 9781566890526
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: Feb 1 1996
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.41 Width: 4.55 Depth: 7.53
Language: English
Roberta Allen presents characters who are never at home in the world, who find in their surroundings the strangeness they feel inside themselves.

The thirty-three stories in Certain People are set in Australia and other exotic locales. The first story, House Hunting, tells of a successful gentleman who is having a life crisis. His lover has left him for a cook. The man whose lover left him for a cook reappears throughout the book, his life slowly crumbling as he recognizes his inability to connect with himself and others. In The Whore, a young, beautiful wife is ignored by her husband, who is enthralled by the life stories of a middle-aged prostitute.

Written in a tactile and painterly manner, the author questions the way we perceive our world and self. In these stories, the world is a place of shifting relations where truths are relative. What one person sees is not the same as another. One's perceptions may change in a flash or not at all. One may cling to people or things long out of sight.

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