Lust and Other Stories - Softcover

Susan Minot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749391138 ISBN 13: 9780749391133

Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1991

Synopsis

For all the New York chic which surrounds them, the situations and dilemmas of Susan Minot's women could hardly be more classical. The women know they are going to lose and several of them try to guard themselves against attachment, to stay free, but their hearts are not in it. They know there is not much they can so about it, once a look, a touch, a night out changes everything. It's a bleak situation, but talking about it doesn't appear to help, and writing about it doesn't either, beyond a certain point, soon reached. the terseness of these laconic tales has its own telling decorum' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

f Monkeys and Evening focuses her observant eye and lyrical voice on the delicate emotional negotiations of young New Yorkers.  As in a series of deceptively simple watercolors, these stories uncover small moments that yield larger truths--about the ways in which women and men come together and come apart again, about the disappointments and hopes of lovers who know what they want but don't always know how to keep.  A deeply poignant meditation on the nature of desire and loss.

From the Back Cover:

"Susan Minot has a laser instinct for the clinching detail and the giveaway phrase.... A writer to watch."--Time

"Minot is a master at putting into frame and focus the tiny, daily scenes that reverberate with large implication."--Mademoiselle

"A superbly organized, poignant and profound collection."--The New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0749391138
• ISBN 13: 9780749391133
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160