Throwing knives
By: Molly Best Tinsley.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "These stories trace the heart's hairline fractures, the small indignities that foreshadow tectonic shifts. A fifteen-year-old girl in the grips of an eating disorder, the new wife of a weapons engineer, a widow who signs up for a figure drawing class - the diverse characters who populate Tinsley's world crave safety and connection only to be faced with "the truth of forever and alone."".

"Quirky and resilient, they refuse victim-hood, drawing instead on their savvy and sense of humor for creative ways to assert themselves even in extremity. A cancer survivor in a loveless marriage dons snorkel mask and flippers before she slips into the sea. A woman with a history of panic attacks, abducted by a bumbling version of the man of her nightmares, plunges beyond her terror.

In the five linked stories of the volume's title, a "navy brat" displaced overseas forges through early adolescence against a background of emotional disruption and neglect."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Winner of the Sandstone Prize in Short Fiction."
Table of contents: title: Zoe; title: Square zero; title: Figure drawing; title: White; title: Affairs of strangers; title: Holiday; title: The only way to ride; title: Throwing knives; title: Mother tongue; title: Outbound; title: Welcome advance; title: Everyone catch on love.