Heartbreaker
Subtitle: stories
By: Maryse Meijer
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780374536060
Subjects: Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "In her debut story collection, Heartbreaker, Maryse Meijer, flashlight in hand, goes deep into the darkest rooms of the psyche. With gorgeously restrained and exacting prose that packs a cumulatively devastating punch, she unapologetically unmasks the violence we are willing to perform upon one another in the name of love and loneliness and the unremitting desire to survive. In doing so, she lights societal convention and reader expectation on fire, exploring the darker emotional truths surrounding love and sex, femininity and masculinity, family and girlhood"--
Table of contents: title: Home --; title: Love, Lucy --; title: Heartbreaker --; title: Stiletto --; title: Shop lady --; title: The fire --; title: Fugue --; title: Jailbait --; title: Whole life ahead --; title: The daddy --; title: Rapture --; title: Stones --; title: The cheat.