Labors of the Heart
Subtitle: Stories
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: October 3, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780312332846
Subjects: Modern fiction; Short Stories (single author); Fiction / Literary; Short Story; Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: For twenty years Joe Earley encouraged his mother to divorce his father.
Description: Acclaimed novelist Claire Davis gathers stories that have been published in leading journals and reprinted in the Pushcart and Best American Short Stories anthologies: Adultery presents the quandary of a middle-aged man whose mother is cheating on her husband by keeping company with her ex-husband. In Grounded, a mother follows her teenage son as he attempts to run away along Montana's highways.

And in Labors of the Heart, a lonely man-enormous and virginal-is literally struck by love for a woman he sees at a supermarket. Keenly attuned to the workings of the human heart and the hidden longings of seemingly-settled people, Labors of the Heart is a first-rate collection.