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Red car : stories

Title
Red car : stories / Sallie Bingham.
Author
Bingham, Sallie.
Publication
Louisville, Ky. : Sarabande Books, [2008], ©2008.

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Description
ix, 181 pages; 21 cm
Summary
"Forty-year veteran of the novel, noted feminist, and author of more than ten books, Sallie Bingham returns with Red Car, a collection written in her signature style - discreet, sly prose circling taboo subjects." "In "The Shot Tower," a woman accepts a man because "He'd said she looked younger than she was, and that was enough to start things." When he abandons her in the New Mexico desert for hours, she muses about her lost sense of self and, in a flash of clarity, remembers "how often she had polished her independence, setting up on mantelpieces in countless rented houses."" "In "Porn," a woman is persuaded by her lover to watch adult movies, and in the midst of checking into their hotel room, she thinks of how "nothing ... felt so good, so profoundly relaxing and rejuvenating, as going to bed alone." And, in the title story, the protagonist notes the "silence particular to the end of a marriage" - the "brittle atmosphere" surrounding the gorgeous, red Cadillac convertible in whish she is riding with her soon-to-be ex-husband." "In these twelve stories, Bingham travels from the beaches of Normandy shortly after the Second World War, to modern-day Brittany, Santa Fe, Florida, and Southern Colorado to situate her wide range of characters."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents
Red Car -- Sagesse -- Pleyben -- Advanced Latin -- Doing Good -- The Shot Tower -- A Gift for Burning -- Porn -- His Sons -- That Winter -- The Big No -- Sweet Peas.
ISBN
  • 9781932511598 (alk. paper)
  • 1932511598 (alk. paper)
  • 9781932511604 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1932511601 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2007022454
  • 40015259779
OCLC
  • ocn141483054
  • 141483054
  • SCSB-5397785
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries