- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Counterpoint (Sep 27 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1593760043
- ISBN-13: 978-1593760045
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.6 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 390 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,333,293 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Berriault's fiction, particularly her pristine and surprising short stories, have been highly praised by such fellow practitioners as Andre Dubus, but it wasn't until her powerful collection Women in Their Beds garnered the 1995 PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Awards that word of her brilliance reached a wider readership. A writer with the compassion and precision of Grace Paley and Chekhov, and a penchant for the fantastic born, in part, from her love of Gogol, Berriault envisioned the lives of all sorts of people in all sorts of unsettling predicaments. This compelling posthumous collection (Berriault died in 1999) presents five remarkable short stories, each a study in the dignity of outsiders, followed by a set of wryly understated and keenly perceptive essays from the 1960s in which Berriault profiles a student activist; topless dancers; a firing squad; and Carolyn Cassady, whose husband, Neal, had just died. Here, too, are reflections on writing and humanism, and a poignant interview, all testimony to the purity of Berriault's mission and the magnitude of her gifts. Donna Seaman
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This posthumous collection of previously uncollected fiction and nonfiction celebrates the career of this American treasure.
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Last collection of a truly great writer,
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This review is from: The Tea Ceremony: The Uncollected Writings Of Gina Berriault (Hardcover)
Not the place to start if your new to Berriault (if you're new, try "Women In Their Beds" or "Afterwards").Berriault is one of the finest American writers of the last 50 years, despite the fact that her work is not well known. Perhaps no one writes better about the inner lives of women. And her sentences are always superb--lyrically honed, filled with insight. This collection is what you get after you've read everything else and there are some nice gems here too (some nice journalism, a very thoughtful interview, some uncollected stories). Go get your hands one aforementioned books!
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Last collection of a truly great writer,
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This review is from: The Tea Ceremony: The Uncollected Writings Of Gina Berriault (Hardcover)
Not the place to start if your new to Berriault (if you're new, try "Women In Their Beds" or "Afterwards").Berriault is one of the finest American writers of the last 50 years, despite the fact that her work is not well known. Perhaps no one writes better about the inner lives of women. And her sentences are always superb--lyrically honed, filled with insight. This collection is what you get after you've read everything else and there are some nice gems here too (some nice journalism, a very thoughtful interview, some uncollected stories). Go get your hands one aforementioned books! |
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