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- Beautiful Soon Enough
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- 2011
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
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Winner of FC2's American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize
Margo Berdeshevsky’s Beautiful Soon Enough is a collection of hypnotic stories that capture the lives—worldly, sexual, obsessive—of twenty–three arresting women.These are snapshots and collages: stories of women on the outside, looking in; of women content to end their affairs; of young women learning the power of seduction; and of older women reminiscing about past loves. They are women who cannot live without love’s embrace, and women who have found it and feel that it is never enough. They are women "of a certain age," as the French might say, and women with naked hearts, of any age.Berdeshevsky’s tales cross the planet: from beds in Paris to the roofs of Havana, from Venice Beach to the hills of Dubrovnik. With settings as varied as the characters they depict, these tales illuminate the lives of women desperate for a balance between love, comfort, and freedom. Personal, driven, and lyrical, together they are Beautiful Soon Enough.
Table of Contents
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- Cover Page
- p. 1
- Title Page
- pp. 2-11
- Cannibal Notes
- pp. 19-24
- A Friday Desdemona
- pp. 25-34
- Before the Second Taste
- pp. 41-50
- Small Craft
- pp. 51-56
- For Flame and Irresistible
- pp. 57-62
- Heart Open as a Jaw
- pp. 63-68
- Troika for Lovers
- pp. 69-78
- White Wings They Never Grow Weary
- pp. 89-90
- Pas de Deux, À Trois
- pp. 91-100
- Con un Beso de Amor
- pp. 121-130
- Le Serveur
- pp. 131-140
- Beautiful Soon Enough
- pp. 147-152
- Scissors, Paper, Rock
- pp. 171-174
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 179-180
- About the Author
- pp. 181-182
Additional Information
ISBN
9781573668125
Related ISBN(s)
9781573661492
MARC Record
OCLC
785776425
Pages
183
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2009