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100 1 $aBerriault, Gina.
245 10 $aWomen in their beds :$bnew and selected stories /$cGina Berriault.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bCounterpoint ;$a[Emeryville, Calif.] :$bDistributed by Publishers Group West,$cc1996.
300 $a342 p. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for 1996
505 0 $aWomen in their beds -- Who is it can tell me who I am? -- A dream of fair women -- Soul and money -- The island of Ven -- Lives of the saints -- Stolen pleasures -- The overcoat -- Zenobia -- The woman in the rose-colored dress -- The infinite passion of expectation -- Nights in the gardens of Spain -- Bastille Day -- God and the article writer --Wilderness fire -- The bystander -- Death of a lesser man -- The search for J. Kruper -- The birthday party -- The cove -- Sublime child -- Around the dear ruin -- The diary of K.W. -- The stone boy -- Anna Lisa's nose -- Works of the imagination -- The mistress -- Lonesome road -- Myra -- The houses of the city -- Nocturne -- Like a motherless child -- The science of life -- Felis catus -- The light at birth.
520 $aWhether focusing on yuppies or drifters, social workers or Indian restaurateurs, heroin addicts or teenage baby-sitters, Berriault (The Lights of Earth) writes with great psychological acuity and a compassion that comes always from observation, never from sentimentality. These 35 short stories have been published in magazines ranging from the Paris Review to Harper's Bazaar; 10 of them are here issued in book form for the first time. In "Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?" the dapper Alberto Perera, "a librarian who did not look like one," fears that the young drifter who has befriended him, wishing to discuss the Spanish poetry he carries in his pockets, is out to kill him; but the drifter is only trying to understand how?both literally and philosophically?to live. A 79-year-old psychologist woos a young, pragmatic waitress in "The Infinite Passion of Expectation." When she meets his ex-wife and witnesses the selfishness spawned by a life spent in deferment, she flees. In the clever "The Search for J. Kruper," an extremely famous and narcissistic novelist, noted for writing grand, poorly disguised autobiographical confessions, learns of the possible whereabouts of one of the few remaining living novelists as famous as he, a recluse who betrays nothing of himself in his writings.
586 $aNational Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 1996
586 $aPen/Faulkner Award, 1997.
650 0 $aManners and customs$vFiction.
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