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Inventing the Abbotts: And Other Stories
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9780062982056
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Aug 11 2020
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Compelling. . . . What Miller
offers. . . is a distinctive sensibility--a candid exploration of the frail and
gritty truths about trying to love without harm or reprisal.--Boston Globe
In this riveting
collection of short stories, bestselling author Sue Miller writes compellingly
The fascinating stories
featured in Inventing the Abbotts explore
the treacherously shifting ground of erotic and family relationships.
In the title story, a young man takes up
successively with three daughters of the most fashionable family in town. Others
concern a young girl in the first blush of sexual curiosity, and a stricken
dowager whose seizures release a brutal and sometimes obscene candor. In one
story after another, Sue Miller presents a remarkable gallery of characters, offering
insight into contemporary men and women with their hungry hearts and dismayed
consciences.
With keen sensitivity and penetrating insight, Inventing the Abbotts will strike a
chord with readers everywhere.
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