Crash diet
Subtitle: stories
By: by Jill McCorkle.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Women -- Southern States -- Fiction; Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Description: Jill McCorkle tells the varied tales of today's southern women, the lives they end up leading, and the loves that distract them. Stuck in the slow lane, gunning their motors, they are women living the real life, hoping things will get better, but surprised when they occasionally do.
Table of contents: title: Crash diet; title: Man watcher; title: Gold mine; title: First Union blues; title: Departures; title: Comparison shopping; title: Migration of the love bugs; title: Waiting for hard times to end; title: Words gone bad; title: Sleeping Beauty, revised; title: Carnival lights.