Jean Thompson's Throw Like a Girl is an occasionally illuminating collection of short stories about women who inhabit what we call the 'middle class,' that fictitious category invented to reassure Americans that there is no economic inequality in the United States. If we all try just hard enough, we're told, we could land somewhere solidly in the 'middle' and live happily normal and humdrum lives/5. Jean Thompson is a novelist and short story writer. Her works include the novels A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl, She Poured Out Her Heart, The Humanity Project, The Year We Left Home, City Boy, Wide Blue Yonder, The Woman Driver, and My Wisdom and the short story collections The Witch and Other Tales Re - Told, Do Not Deny Me, Throw Like a Girl, Who Do You Love (a National Book Award finalist), Released on: J. Throw Like A Girl (Stories) Paperback, pages. Publisher: Simon Schuster. Publication Date: Here are twelve stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, arcing from youth to experience. Each one of Thompson's indelible characters -- lovers, wives, friends, and mothers -- speaks her piece -- wry, angry, hopeful -- about the world and women's places in it.
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Book Overview. A master of short fiction whose "best pieces are as good as it gets in contemporary cction" (Newsday) returns, as Jean Thompson follows her National Book Award finalist collection Who Do You Love with Throw Like a Girl. Here are twelve new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, arcing from youth to experience. To appreciate the delicious irony of the title of “Throw Like a Girl,” Jean Thompson’s boldly unconventional new story collection, you need to consider it in context: in the title story, two. A master of short fiction whose "best pieces are as good as it gets in contemporary cction" (Newsday) returns, as Jean Thompson follows her National Book Award finalist collection Who Do You Love with Throw Like a Girl. Here are twelve new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, arcing from youth to experience.
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