Difficult Women
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Difficult Women
A collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection from award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay
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The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail.
A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister's marriage. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realise when her husband and his brother impersonate each other.
A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job and faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues and the difficulty of leaving her past behind.
From a girls' fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbours conform, compete, and spy on each other, Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America in Difficult Women.
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Difficult Women by Roxane Gay is lauded for its powerful and unique storytelling. The book offers a challenging and memorable collection of stories, noted for a touch of darkness. It stands out significantly, with the author's writing described as a powerhouse.
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ISBN: 9781472152770
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 January 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Corsair
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 155.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 369g
Pages: 272
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About the Author
Roxane Gay is the author of An Untamed State, Bad Feminist and the story collection Ayiti. Her work has also appeared in Glamour, Best American Short Stories, and the New York Times Book Review. She is the co-editor of PANK.
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