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Terrific Mother
Faber Stories
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Terrific Mother
Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.
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Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: You'd make a terrific mother. That's when she goes to her friends' Labour Day picnic and accidentally kills their baby.
The shock of this scene is expertly packed into two brief paragraphs. What follows is Adrienne's retreat from life and her attempt to return to it.
Her sharp scepticism about the people around her is achingly funny. Yet beyond derision, there is forgiveness and something along the lines of love.
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ISBN: 9780571351831
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 March 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 5.0mm
Width: 111.0mm
Height: 160.0mm
Weight: 61g
Pages: 80
About the Author
Lorrie Moore, after serving for almost three decades as the Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Moore has received numerous grants and awards, from among others: the Lannan Foundation, the National Books Critics Circle, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her most recent novel, A Gate at the Stairs, was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize.
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