Pretending the bed is a raft
Subtitle: stories
By: by Nanci Kincaid.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Description: Nanci Kincaid is a specialist in the mating game. She's a woman who can track the thrusts and parries of courtship, a writer who can describe the indescribable moments of victory...and defeat.

Here, she zeros in on the give-and-take between exuberantly feminine females and the men they attract. What they do once they get together is only part of what Kincaid reports with her devilish empathy and delicious humor. Why they do it, why the bed seems like a life raft, is her singular insight - and what drives these eight irresistible stories.
Table of contents: title: Snakes; title: This is not the picture show; title: Won't nobody ever love you like your daddy does; title: Pretty please; title: Just because they've got papers doesn't mean they aren't still dogs; title: Why Richard can't; title: Total recoil; title: Pretending the bed is a raft.