num_pages: 302
description: The theme of trust, betrayed or fulfilled, runs through this collection of short Parents lead children into peril, husbands abandon wives, wives manipulate husbands, and time undermines all. Love pangs, a favorite subject of the author, take on a new urgency as earthquakes, illnesses, lost wallets, and deaths of distant friends besiege his aging heroes and heroines. One man loves his wife’s twin, and several men love the imagined bliss of their pasts; one woman takes an impotent lover, and another must administer her father’s death. Bourgeois comforts and youthful convictions are tenderly seen as certain to “Man,” as one of these stories concludes, “was not meant to abide in paradise.”
language: English
title: Trust Me
titlecomplete: Trust Me
genres: Fiction, American, Own, Short Stories, Modern, Literature, Novels, Adult Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 889
publisher: Knopf