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An edition of Getting over Tom (1994)

Getting over Tom

stories

1st ed.
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Readers will recognize the author of these delicious stories as a fellow foot soldier from the battle of the sexes.

Abigail Thomas seems to know everything there is to know about women who always fall for the wrong man. Her characters range from child brides (who are also child mothers) to middle-aged grandmothers (who indulge in cradle-robbing flings).

They say things like: "I thought he had noticed me and I knew it was one of my better days, because a woman standing next to me whispered, 'You don't have a stitch on under that dress, do you?" and: "'I miss you,' he says, turning around, and his voice is soft and low and full of places to lie down.".

These stories, about open-hearted, unsuspecting women of all ages, are so knowing, so effortlessly funny, so poignant, that it's clear from the very first page we're in the hands of a writer who has spent her adult life becoming a hands-on expert at Loving Too Much. Thomas, who started writing fiction at fifty, says she spent her twenties and thirties, "very caught up in what people, especially men, thought about me, defined by who loved me at that moment.".

Abigail Thomas's first book of stories proves she has got the goods on both the "Loving" and the "Loved." That she also has the keenest sense of both the sublime and the ridiculous sides of romance is what makes Getting Over Tom so enchanting. And if the title leads you to think of Dick and Harry also, well...

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Language
English
Pages
204

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Cover of: Getting over Tom
Getting over Tom: stories
1995, Scribner Paperback Fiction
in English - 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed.
Cover of: Getting over Tom
Getting over Tom: stories
1994, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Published in
Chapel Hill, N.C

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3570.H53 G47 1994, PS3570.H53G47 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
204 p. ;
Number of pages
204

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1420879M
ISBN 10
1565120248
LCCN
93031017
OCLC/WorldCat
29258358
Library Thing
141088
Goodreads
2989921

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