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Characters such as Rosemary, a fly on the wall of an illegally sublet Manhattan apartment, reveal the inside gossip and values of the New York yuppie generation in eleven short interlocking stories. A first collection. Tour.
214 pages, Hardcover
First published February 1, 1992
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Jacqueline Carey
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From the author's website:
Jacqueline Carey grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1977. Since then she has lived mostly in New York City and Montana.
Her short stories first appeared in The New Yorker in 1986. Her work has also been published in Elle, Allure, WigWag, the Village Voice, and the New York Times Magazine. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, and she used to write a mystery column for Salon.com. She received a Guggenheim fellowship to write THE CROSSLEY BABY.
Recently she moved to Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, writer Ian Frazier, and their two children.
From the author's website:
Jacqueline Carey grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1977. Since then she has lived mostly in New York City and Montana.
Her short stories first appeared in The New Yorker in 1986. Her work has also been published in Elle, Allure, WigWag, the Village Voice, and the New York Times Magazine. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, and she used to write a mystery column for Salon.com. She received a Guggenheim fellowship to write THE CROSSLEY BABY.
Recently she moved to Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, writer Ian Frazier, and their two children.
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August 24, 2025
Absolutely and emphatically disagree with the ridiculously low rating this book has received from a scant 11 reviews, all of which I am so glad I did not see before reading.
This is delicious writing. Line by line, word by word.
The stories are also just connected/disconnected enough that the reader ends up joining the cast of characters as a new circle rather than simply observing them.
(Or at least I did.)
This is delicious writing. Line by line, word by word.
The stories are also just connected/disconnected enough that the reader ends up joining the cast of characters as a new circle rather than simply observing them.
(Or at least I did.)
June 7, 2011
Actually, I couldn't finish it. It was just too dry and disjointed. Maybe women would like it...
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