Follow Me - Hardcover

Griner, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679448454 ISBN 13: 9780679448457

Publisher: Random House, 1996

Synopsis

In the wide-ranging stories of Follow Me, Paul Griner offers a view of America that is at once completely recognizable and completely surprising. Set in a country full of urban edginess, small-town deceit, and suburban frustrations and populated by desperate drifters, ingeniously cruel women, doctors who damage their own children, and aged car thieves, Griner's stories take the reader to the margins of American life. With candor, insight, and humor, Griner explores transience, trickery, fear, grief, love, and revenge - impulses and emotions that dominate and direct the lives of a broad assortment of well- and ill-meaning strugglers and schemers.

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Review:

A beautiful New York artist merges sex and aesthetics in a series of increasingly risque and risky performance pieces. She begins by luring rich men to surreptitious meetings she never keeps, then mounts an exhibit of photographs of the married men she has seduced, and finally hires a private detective to take clandestine photographs of her. But her final "creation" leads to more than she bargained for. The title story of this debut collection from Paul Griner is just one of 10 offerings that examine the lives of characters who struggle to hold themselves together despite loss, deception, anger, and regret.

About the Author:

Paul Griner is an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisville.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679448454
• ISBN 13: 9780679448457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212