Sign-In
Cart
Virgin and Other Stories
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.00
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN10: 1250141230
ISBN13: 9781250141231
Publisher: St Martins Pr 3Pl
Published: Nov 7 2017
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781250141231
Publisher: St Martins Pr 3Pl
Published: Nov 7 2017
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
One of The Irish Times Best debuts of 2017
One of New York Magazine's 45 New Books to Read This Fall One of The Millions' Most Anticipated for the second half of 2016 One of The Huffington Post's 20 New Books You'll Need For Your Shelf in Fall 2016 One of The Boston Globe's most anticipated for Fall 2016 One of Bookriot's 16 Books to Read This Fall One of Harper's Bazaar's 16 Books You Need to Read in NovemberSet in the American South, at the crossroads of a world that is both secular and devoutly Christian, April Ayers Lawson's stories mine the inner lives of young women and men navigating sexual, emotional, and spiritual awakenings. In the title story, Jake grapples with the growing chasm between him and his wife, Sheila, who was a virgin when they wed. In Three Friends in a Hammock the tension and attraction is palpable between three sexy, insecure young women as they tug and toe the rope of their shared sack. The Way You Must Play Always invites us into the mind of Gretchen, young-looking even for thirteen, as she attends her weekly piano lesson, anxiously anticipating her illicit meeting with Wesley, her instructor's adult brother who is recovering from a brain tumor. Conner, the cynical sixteen-year-old narrator of The Negative Effects of Homeschooling, escorts his mink-wearing mother to the funeral of her best friend, Charlene, a woman who was once a man. And in Vulnerability we accompany a young married painter to New York City, lured there by an art dealer and one of his artists. Both are self-involved and have questionable intentions, but nevertheless she is enticed. Nodding to the Southern Gothic but channeling an energy all its own, Virgin and Other Stories is a mesmerizing debut from an uncannily gifted young writer. With self-assurance and sensuality, April Ayers Lawson unravels the intertwining imperatives of intimacy--sex and love, violation and trust, spirituality and desire--eyeing, unblinkingly, what happens when we succumb to temptation.
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
$38.00
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
From $14.99
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
From $17.99
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback
$79.43
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Baughman, Judith
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Paperback
$50.74