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Name: Kathleen Alcott - Emergency (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 1.55 MB

Title: Emergency
Author: Kathleen Alcott
Language: English
Year: 2023
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, Short Stories
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9781324051886
Total pages: 160 str.

From an "exquisite" (The New Yorker) writer, a searing volume of prizewinning stories starring women facing points of no return.
A professor finds a photograph of her deceased mother in a compromising position on the wall of a museum. A twenty-something's lucrative remote work sparks paranoia and bigotry. A transplant to a new city must make a choice about who she trusts when her partner reveals a violent history. The summer after her divorce from an older man, an exiled painter's former friends grapple with rumors that she attempted to pass as a teenager.
In this long-awaited debut collection, Kathleen Alcott turns her skills as a stylist on the unfreedoms of American life-as well as the guilt that stalks those who survive them. Emergency roams from European cities to scorched California towns, drug-smeared motel rooms to polished dinner parties, taking taut, surprising portraits of addiction, love, misogyny, and sexual power. Confronting...