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Forever sisters : famous writers celebrate the power of sisterhood with short stories, essays, and memoirs
- Title
- Forever sisters : famous writers celebrate the power of sisterhood with short stories, essays, and memoirs / edited by Claudia O'Keefe.
- Publication
- New York : Pocket Books, [1999], ©1999.
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- Additional Authors
- O'Keefe, Claudia.
- Description
- xvi, 299 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Alice Walker tells a mother's tale of reunion between her daughters: one trapped by tragedy in the dirt-poor South, the other making it big in the city. In an engrossing short story, Marilyn French movingly depicts two young women growing apart in an alcoholic, dysfunctional family. Joy Fielding shapes a humorous but sharp-edged story of the consequences when half-sisters meet for the very first time on a TV talk show.
- Ann Beattie tells of a pair of friends, as close as sisters, locked in a smothering embrace. In a bittersweet tale, Fae Myenne Ng writes of growing up in a culture that considers a family with only girl children "failed." Recalling her grandmother and great-aunt, Olivia Goldsmith unfolds a dark memoir of sisterhood gone terrifyingly awry. Cristina Garcia relates a poignant account of sisters separated for thirty years, one trapped in Cuba, the other escaped to Miami, reunited at long last.
- And Rita Dove retells one of the classic fairy tales of sisters, Beauty and the Beast, from the disparate viewpoints of all the women involved.
- Subjects
- Contents
- Introduction / Claudia O'Keefe -- Seven Sisters: An Analysis by Numbers / Whitney Otto -- The Wrong Sister / Caroline Leavitt -- Two Sisters: A Personal Essay / Olivia Goldsmith -- Venus Flygirls: A Novel Excerpt / Lolita Files -- What Have You Done for Me, Lately?: A Personal Essay / Paullina Simons -- Grilled Cheese / Marilyn French -- Silver Water / Amy Bloom -- Seeds / Joy Fielding -- A Red Sweater / Fae Myenne Ng -- Traffic / Tracy Robert -- Pyroclastic Flow / Fay Weldon -- GI Jesus / Susan Palwick -- Under the Rose / Rita Dove -- The Summer Before the Summer of Love / Marly Swick -- Playback / Ann Beattie -- Sister Rue: A Personal Essay / Carol Edgarian -- Everyday Use / Alice Walker -- A Matter of Gifts: A Novel Excerpt / Cristina Garcia.
- ISBN
- 0671007920
- LCCN
- 98043729
- OCLC
- ocm40397632
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries