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Lucky Girls : Stories by Nell Freudenberger (2006, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100061124273

ISBN-139780061124273

eBay Product ID (ePID)57071823

Product Key Features

Book TitleLucky Girls : Stories

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Romance / Contemporary, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorNell Freudenberger

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight7.9 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Reviews"Throughout the book...are moments of sharp humor and wise insight." -- Los Angeles Times "Lucky Girls is a beautiful story that has a graceful simplicity." -- People "Skillful and assured...Freudenberger's prose is smooth. -- Raleigh News & Observer "[Freudenberger's] stories have the complex nuances of a mature writer." -- Speakeasy magazine "In simple, elegant prose, she renders foreign landscapes with unsentimental precision." -- Vogue "Freudenberger is...a fantastic writer." -- Houston Press "Extraordinary stories." -- The Journal News

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisFirst highlighted in the "New Yorker" fiction issue, "Lucky Girls" is a collection of five novella-like stories that take place mostly in Asia--the debut of a new talent and a "New York Times" Notable Book., Nell Freudenberger's brilliantly observed debut story collection The debut collection of Nell Freudenberger, who first came to national attention with the 2001 New Yorker publication of the title story, Lucky Girls encompasses five novella length stories set in Southeast Asia and on the Indian subcontinent. In "Lucky Girls," an American woman who has been involved in a five-year affair with a married Indian man feels bound, following his untimely death, to her memories of him and to her adopted country. And in "Letter from the Last Bastion," a teenage girl begins a correspondence with a middle aged male novelist, who, having built his reputation writing about his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam, confides in her the secret truth of those experiences, and the lie that has defined his life as a man., First highlighted in The New Yorker fiction issue, here is award-winning writer Nell Freudenberger's debut story collectionLucky Girls is a collection of five novella-like stories, which take place mostly in Asia. The characters--expatriates, often by accident--are attracted to the places they find themselves in a romantic way, or repelled by a landscape where every object seems strange. For them, falling in love can be inseparable from the place where it happens. Living according to unfamiliar rules, these characters are also vulnerable in unique ways. In the title story, a young woman who has been involved in a five-year affair with a married Indian man feels bound to both her memories and her adopted country after his death. The protagonist of "Outside the Eastern Gate" returns to her childhood home in Delhi, to find a house still inhabited by the impulsive, desperate spirit of her mother, who left her family for a wild journey over the Khyber Pass to Afghanistan. In "Letter from the Last Bastion," a teenage girl begins a correspondence with a novelist who's built his reputation writing about his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam and who, in his letters, confides in her a secret about his past. Highly anticipated in the literary community and beyond, Lucky Girls marks the debut of a very special talent that places her among today's most gifted young writers.