Transgressions
Subtitle: stories
By: Sallie Bingham.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Louisville, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Feminist fiction, American.; Women -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Sallie Bingham examines modern-day "transgressions" in affairs of the heart. She offers up a menage a trois, an older woman's affair with a student, a painter who uses his age as an excuse to behave indecorously. But the reader quickly discovers the real transgressions are those of the self against the self.".

"In "The Pump" a woman lies about her love life because she worries over "Abandoned women - all that power turns to ashes when the fire's put out." In "The One True Place" a gay couple shelter a young man, though they understand he will erode their relationship. Bingham's stories are told with a sober reticence and the authority of real-life ambiguity: confusions of desire and morality, ambition and regret underlie each beautifully crafted tale."--BOOK JACKET.