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Talking in Bed
Two men meet briefly in a hospital, where both are visiting their dying fathers. They speak again just a few months later, when one of them impulsively calls the other, a psychologist, and a friendship of sorts starts to form. After the psychologist leaves his wife a few weeks later, she begins to fall in love with his friend, creating a triangle that threatens to destroy...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
February 1st 1998
by Scribner Book Company
(first published 1996)
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I just noticed that this is her first novel. I wish I had known that when I started to read it. The novel is very uneven, there are some wonderful moments in the book, and sometimes the language, or a phrase, or a description are stunning, but overall the book falls apart. As a short story this could have been interesting. Actually as a short story this could have been really good, in a Raymond Carver way. There are parts of a characters action that can be accepted in a short story which need to...more
Antonya Nelson. Talking in Bed. New York: Simon and Shuster, 1998.
I swear I read parts of this book in a collection of her short stories. Talking in Bed is a 275 page novel - it would be better as a short story.
Pages 178 / 179 I can relate to this description.
“One of [the:] most debilitating fears was that people would discover how little prepared she was to understand the world . . . She listened to the news on public radio every day, but her attention to it was purely temporary . . . Whatever...more
I swear I read parts of this book in a collection of her short stories. Talking in Bed is a 275 page novel - it would be better as a short story.
Pages 178 / 179 I can relate to this description.
“One of [the:] most debilitating fears was that people would discover how little prepared she was to understand the world . . . She listened to the news on public radio every day, but her attention to it was purely temporary . . . Whatever...more
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My favorite of the three so far. Character reminded me a lot of the guy in In Treatment. Still find these women passive and adrift. Came to like the main male narrator for mid-life crisis. Wonderful account of the excruciating aspect of the dinner party.
Some poor construction and overwrought emotional passages. Probably more like 2.5.
I read the whole novel in a day! First time since adolescence. I think that says it all.
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I'm a fan of Nelson's and loved getting to know the characters in this book.
Eh. Didn't really enjoy it.
I couldn't finish this one. I like her short fiction, but this novel DRAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGEDDDD! There are too many books out there to spend time on a bad one.
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Antonya Nelson is the author of nine books of fiction, including Nothing Right and the novels Talking in Bed, Nobody’s Girl, and Living to Tell. Nelson’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, Redbook, and many other magazines, as well as in anthologies such as Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and The Best American Short Stories. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA...more
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