DATING MISS UNIVERSE
Subtitle: NINE STORIES (SANDSTONE PRICE SHORT FICTION)
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: March 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780814208182
Subjects: Short Stories (single author); Popular American Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - General; 20th century; Short stories; Social life and customs; United States
Description: Steven Polansky's universe has no heroes, no villains. His people are fallen and eminently human. They try to live difficult lives with dignity and grace, to cope with what scares them. These are powerful stories of brokenness - broken families, failed loves, dangerous intimacies, unrealized dreams - that are surprisingly tender and often comic. These are stories that are at once bright and dark, written with scrupulous moral precision.