Book Description
These stories-from such masters of short fiction as Ann Beattie, Andre Dubus, Jhumpa Lahiri and John Updike-represent a journey through the rocky emotional terrain of separation and divorce, from the viewpoints of spouses, children, and significant others who are all deeply affected by the dissolution of marriage, whether that dissolution is slow and sad or sudden and shocking.
Stories by:
John Cheever * Ann Beattie * Jhumpa Lahiri * John Updike * Alice Munro * Andre Dubus * Lee K. Abbott * Randall Kenan * Wendi Kaufman * Michael Chabon * Russell Banks * Sherman Alexie * Edmund White * Alice Elliott Dark * Peter Ho Davies * Raymond Carver * Grace Paley * Richard Ford * Molly Giles * Anthony Walton * Lucia Nevai * Lorrie Moore
About the Author
Caitlin Shetterly graduated with Honors in English and American literature from Brown University in 1997. She is a child of divorce.
Fault Lines: Stories of Divorce FROM THE PUBLISHER
These stories-from such masters of short fiction as Ann Beattie, Andre Dubus, Jhumpa Lahiri and John Updike-represent a journey through the rocky emotional terrain of separation and divorce, from the viewpoints of spouses, children, and significant others who are all deeply affected by the dissolution of marriage, whether that dissolution is slow and sad or sudden and shocking.
Stories by:
John Cheever
* Ann Beattie
* Jhumpa Lahiri
* John Updike
* Alice Munro
* Andre Dubus
* Lee K. Abbott
* Randall Kenan
* Wendi Kaufman
* Michael Chabon
* Russell Banks
* Sherman Alexie
* Edmund White
* Alice Elliott Dark
* Peter Ho Davies
* Raymond Carver
* Grace Paley
* Richard Ford
* Molly Giles
* Anthony Walton
* Lucia Nevai
* Lorrie Moore
Author Biography: Caitlin Shetterly graduated with Honors in English and American literature from Brown University in 1997. She is a child of divorce.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
In Fault Lines: Stories of Divorce, editor Caitlin Shetterly gathers short stories about separation and divorce. In "The Season of Divorce" by John Cheever, a young married woman is courted by an older married man, who appears on her doorstep to ask her husband to give her up. In Wendi Kaufman's "Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street," 11-year-old Vita imagines herself as Helen of Troy to cope with the pain and confusion of her father's departure. Also included are stories by John Updike, Raymond Carver, Ann Beattie, Andre Dubus, Richard Ford, Alice Munro and others. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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