The Lifeguard
It was with her stories that Mary Morris first won attention and acclaim: her first collection, Vanishing Animals, received the prestigious Rome Prize, and her second, The Bus of Dreams, was widely hailed. In this new collection, Mary Morris once again shows her great sensitivity to men and women at moments of turbulence, uncertainty and crisis in their lives-and how they can reach for the unexpected and the spiritual at such times.In the title story, a lifeguard sees his teenage mystique among the girls on the beach dissolve in a panicked moment when he cannot save a child. In The Wall, a woman confronts her husband's first marriage, in the…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-80997-1
- EAN: 9780307809971
- Produktnummer: 15722777
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'222 KB
Über den Autor
Mary Morris is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels A Mother's Love and House Arrest, as well as the travel memoir classic Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone. The recipient of the Rome Prize in literature and a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, she was raised in Chicago and now lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
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