Damage control
By: Amber Dermont
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780312642815
Subjects: American Short stories
Other titles: Damage control :
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Damage Control displays Amber Dermont's remarkable gift for portraying characters at crossroads. In "Lyndon," a daughter visits presidential landmarks following the death of her father. In "Damage Control," a young man works at an etiquette school while his girlfriend is indicted for embezzlement. A widow rents herself to elderly women and vacations with them as a "professional grandchild" in "Stella at the Winter Palace." And in "The Language of Martyrs" a couple houses a mail order bride on behalf of the husband's Russian mother.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Lyndon; title: Damage control; title: The order; title: A splendid wife; title: Stella at the winter palace; title: The language of martyrs; title: Number one tuna; title: Assembling the troops; title: Merchants; title: Sorry, you are not a winner; title: Afternoons in the museum of childhood; title: Notes toward an anatomy of pain; title: The master of novices; title: Camp.