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Overview

This book is a collection of short stories that embraces the themes of love, loss, and learning about oneself. Through dealing with illness, divorce, and relationships, the stories in this collection explore life's intimate issues.
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Overview

This book is a collection of short stories that embraces the themes of love, loss, and learning about oneself. Through dealing with illness, divorce, and relationships, the stories in this collection explore life's intimate issues.

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Domestic tales of transition. Middle-class couples with children weather storms-or don't-in Wineberg's debut collection. The majority of these stories illuminate a mature relationship in which one or both partners are afflicted by crisis-illness, adultery, differing ideologies. The adults tend to be employed in solid professions-lawyers, professors, psychologists-and the children come in pairs. Cancer occurs quite often. "A Crossing" is the account of a doctor, Alice, adjusting to the discovery of a malignant lump in her breast. In both the title story and "Bad News," the mother of the central character is seriously ill, with the possibility of death signaling a transition into adulthood. This awareness of being on the cusp of something life-altering is characteristic of Wineberg's short fiction. She gravitates to moments of awakening. Many of the stories are written from the female point of view and several speak of a relationship in which a period of subservience is approaching the tipping point. In "The Piano," an unassertive wife finally buys the instrument she always wanted and endures her husband's disapproval. In "After We Went South," the wife who doesn't want her husband to leave, despite his involvement with a model, chooses to reject him when he tries to return. In "Verse of the Han," a similar woman gives her errant husband a second chance, until she decides to leave him. As the stories accumulate, it becomes harder to differentiate among these more or less compliant women. Wineberg brings empathy to these scenarios, and her simple, direct style has emotional veracity, but the volume as a whole shows patterns of repetition and a banality of observation.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780898232691
  • Publisher: New Rivers Press
  • Publication date: 10/1/2005
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 175
  • Series: Many Voices Project , #105
  • File size: 2 MB

Meet the Author

Ronna Wineberg holds degrees from the University of Michigan and University of Denver College of Law. Her work has appeared in Berkeley Fiction Review and Colorado Review. Her awards include the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in fiction and a Bread Loaf Writers conference scholarship. Ms. Wineberg lives in New York with her husband and three children.

Table of Contents

The coin collector 15
The lapse 35
A crossing 53
After we went south 69
Bad news 97
The piano 115
Second language 125
The search 145
The encyclopedia 157
The visitor 173
Verse of the Han 189
The night watchman 209
The doctor 231

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