Curled in the bed of love
Subtitle: stories
By: by Catherine Brady.
Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Love stories, American; San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: To read Curled in the Bed of Love is to feel the incessant tug between devotion and desire that can unmake even the closest couple. These eleven stories are set in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in true Left Coast style, Catherine Brady's characters are as resolute in evading middle-class conformity as they are in clinging to their illusions about love. And while they never shy from paying their dues, they can't help but wonder sometimes if their choices have at last accrued too high a cost. What lies in the bed of love, with women and men curled sometimes in repose, sometimes in a defensive knot, are failed dreams, reproofs, ambitions, and stubborn beliefs.
Table of contents: title: The loss of green; title: Comfort; title: Nothing to hide; title: Honor among thieves; title: Curled in the bed of love; title: Light, air, water; title: Side by side; title: Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird; title: Roam the wilderness; title: Written in stone; title: Behold the handmaid of the Lord.