Married but looking
By: Daniel S. Libman
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781604890785; 9781604890792
Subjects: Kurzgeschichte; Amerikanisches Englisch; Marriage; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Daniel S. Libman's stories bring us a new style that is part inner dialogue, part comic monologue?Grace Paley meets Charles Bukowski. Armed with a comic's wit and a poet's ear, Libman celebrates marriage by excoriating what it falls prey to and must overcome: adultery, lusts and longings, dalliances both real and imagined. Here we see the fantasies of the adulterer, the dark paranoid world of the cuckold, and surprisingly, the willingness of couples to stay together, with their tenuous, often funny steps forward after transgression. Taken together, these short works are a testament to the marriage and its demands of love, humor, and the sheer persistence of the human heart.
Table of contents: title: In the belly of the cat; title: Lost languages in Africa; title: Tandem; title: The tantric butterfly; title: The rate of exchange; title: New Pueblo, New Mexicao; title: The kiss; title: Just like Spain; title: Lemons; title: Ovarian dancer; title: Sentimental values; title: Best man; title: Ultralight; title: One indiscretion; title: Married but looking.