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050 00 $aPS3570.H53$bG47 1994
082 00 $a813/.54$220
100 1 $aThomas, Abigail.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92036975
245 10 $aGetting over Tom /$cstories by Abigail Thomas.
260 $aChapel Hill, N.C. :$bAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill,$c1994.
263 $a9405
300 $a204 pages ;$c19 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
505 0 $aSisters -- Seeing Things -- 1957 -- So Far So Good -- Just Married 1959 -- Man & Wife -- Babysitting -- Buddy's Best Work -- Modern Love -- A Tooth for Every Child -- Love in the Present Tense -- Getting Over Tom.
520 $aReaders will recognize the author of these delicious stories as a fellow foot soldier from the battle of the sexes.
520 8 $aAbigail 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).
520 8 $aThey 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.".
520 8 $aThese 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.".
520 8 $aAbigail 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...
650 0 $aMan-woman relationships$zUnited States$vFiction.
650 0 $aWomen$xSexual behavior$zUnited States$vFiction.
650 0 $aSex addicts$zUnited States$vFiction.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3570.H53$iG47 1994