Out of the girls' room and into the night
By: Thisbe Nissen.
Series: The John Simmons short fiction award
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Love stories, American; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Description: "Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night is a collection of stories, elongated riffs on that thing we call ... love. All manner of love stories: thwarted love stories, imaginary love stories, love stories offhand and obsessive, philosophical love stories, erudite and amusing love stories."--BOOK JACKET.

"Everyone does it: women of fierce independence, men of thin character, rambling Deadheads, gay teenage girls, despondent Peace Corps volunteers, anorexic Broadway theatre dancers, the eager, the grieving, the uncommunicative. Even the confused do it. And they don't just fall in love with each other - they fall in love with certain moments and familiar places, with things as ephemeral as gestures and as evanescent as sunlight."--BOOK JACKET.