false 90137 4 3 381009 0743218728 9780743218726 30 <![CDATA[Female Trouble: Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174328598m/381009.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174328598s/381009.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381009.Female_Trouble_Stories 4.02 122 Female Trouble features thirteen wise, funny, and startlingly perceptive stories about the vagaries and revelations of womanhood. Named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best writers of her generation, Antonya Nelson explores the broad notion of family from myriad angles in Female Trouble. Set in the vividly rendered Midwest, these moving stories are dark and honest portraits of people in moral quandaries, gray areas, unclear circumstances -- from the three-timing thirty-year-old man of the title story to the divorced mother of a turbulent teen in "Incognito" to the sexually adventurous daughter of an adulterous mother in "Stitches." With Female Trouble, Nelson has created a cast of memorable characters who reveal us to ourselves with disturbing clarity and conscience.

]]> 90137 3.76 556 127 2002 5179145 1596915749 9781596915749 38 <![CDATA[Nothing Right: Short Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5179145.Nothing_Right_Short_Stories 3.76 99 A collection of stories from one of the New Yorker’s “twenty young fiction writers of the new millennium,” a series of unforgettable glimpses into contemporary family life.

Set in the American Southwest, and featuring one previously unpublished story, Nothing Right shows one of our best writers working at the top of her game. Antonya Nelson’s stories are masterpieces: poignant, hilarious, truthful explorations of domesticity.

The artfully rendered characters in Nothing Right try to keep themselves intact as their personal lives explode around them. A mother and her teenage son finally find common ground when his girlfriend becomes pregnant. A woman leaves her husband and finds herself living with a stranger who is getting extensive plastic surgery while her best friend is dying of cancer. In “Or Else,” one of three short stories nominated for a National Magazine Award for the New Yorker, a man brings his girlfriend to a house he claims belongs to his family, only to have his lie exposed when one of the real owners comes home to scatter her father’s ashes.

These stories are sure to delight longtime fans and readers lucky enough to be just discovering Antonya Nelson.]]> 90137 3.76 556 127 2009 155858 0743218736 9780743218733 16 <![CDATA[Some Fun: Stories and a Novella]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172260605m/155858.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172260605s/155858.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/155858.Some_Fun_Stories_and_a_Novella 3.94 66 One of the most award-winning, critically acclaimed story writers working today, Antonya Nelson has a list of accolades that is astonishing for any writer, but especially for one as young as she. With her newest collection, Nelson once again proves herself worthy of her stellar reputation, delivering seven taut, striking stories and a brilliant novella, all exploring the tensions of troubled family relations.

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Nelson is an extraordinary chronicler of the fraught relationships between parents and children and husbands and wives. With her particular understanding of the threats and vulnerabilities of wild adolescence, as well as the complicated, persistent love that often lies dormant beneath the drama of rebellion, she illuminates the hidden corners of her characters' lives.

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The shy, shoplifting sixteen-year-old protagonist in the title novella is trying to understand how to become an adult while going through a year of family disaster. We watch as she dabbles in the same adult behaviors that so repulse her about her parents (binge drinking, sex) while maintaining so much of her adolescent insecurity and confusion. "Dick" is a moving story about a mother who, having lost her daughter to the vicissitudes of adolescence, has a compulsion to protect her innocent, preadolescent son from the aggressive and encroaching post-9/11 adult world. The homeless teen at the heart of "Eminent Domain" is a pampered Houston rich girl who has, for her own reasons, taken to the streets.

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Radiating an emotional intensity that unifies the entire collection, each of Nelson's stories both captivates and unnerves. As her characters run the gauntlet of often bewildering family tensions and trauma, she alternates hope and despair, resentment and love, in perfectly recognizable proportions.

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Weaving wonderful observation with quick wit and striking insight, Some Fun is a timely and provocative inventory of the state of family in America -- and proof of why Nelson is one of the most important writers at work today.

]]> 90137 3.76 556 127 2006 895315 0684852071 9780684852072 9 <![CDATA[Nobody's Girl: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179264970m/895315.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179264970s/895315.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/895315.Nobody_s_Girl_A_Novel 3.35 54 90137 3.76 556 127 1998 385333 0684838001 9780684838007 5 <![CDATA[Talking in Bed]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174352685m/385333.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174352685s/385333.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/385333.Talking_in_Bed 3.46 48 Talking in Bed focuses on two married couples on the verge of middle age. Psychologist Evan Cole and his wife Rachel, a lawyer, befriend Paddy (a roofer) and Didi Limbach (a Mormon housewife). The two couples forge an awkward, yet comforting friendship that leads to an affair between Paddy and Rachel. As the dynamics between the characters shift, each tries to keep life from spinning out of control by grasping desperately at love.]]> 90137 3.76 556 127 1996 381011 0684846861 9780684846866 4 <![CDATA[In the Land of Men: Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174328600m/381011.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174328600s/381011.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381011.In_the_Land_of_Men_Stories 3.77 40

]]> 90137 3.76 556 127 1992 381015 0743200608 9780743200608 10 <![CDATA[Living to Tell: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174328622m/381015.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174328622s/381015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381015.Living_to_Tell_A_Novel 3.40 43 As the Mabies wrestle with pregnancy, broken hearts, obsession, redemption, mortality, and forgiveness, Antonya Nelson weaves a rich and true tapestry of family.

]]> 90137 3.76 556 127 2000 381010 0684846853 9780684846859 4 <![CDATA[The EXPENDABLES: STORIES]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174328599m/381010.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174328599s/381010.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381010.The_EXPENDABLES_STORIES 3.76 34 90137 3.76 556 127 1989 381012 0684802244 9780684802244 5 <![CDATA[Family Terrorists]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174328601m/381012.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174328601s/381012.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381012.Family_Terrorists 3.86 29 The Expendables explore the heart of contemporary life and the ties of love, faith, anxiety, and antagonism that bind families together. Reprint. 12,000 first printing.]]> 90137 3.76 556 127 1994 7158496 1439190925 9781439190920 0 <![CDATA[Some Fun: Stories and a Novella]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7158496-some-fun 0.0 0 90137 3.76 556 127 2009