
The Expendables
Stories
Antonya Nelson(Author)
Scribner (Publisher)
Published on 1. February 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-0-684-84685-9 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award, Antonya Nelson's debut collection of stories displays the off-beat perceptions, the humor, and the sensibility that have won the author not only critical acclaim but a host of devoted readers. Most of the stories in The Expendables are about marriage -- marriage in process, about to be, about not to be anymore, possibly transgressed, and decidedly not transgressed. In the title story, a teenage boy participates in the spectacle of his sister's second marriage. In "Dog Problems," a husband muses about his wife's attachment to her dog, a bond that predates their marriage and will -- he fears -- outlast it. There is the woman in "Affair Life," happily encircled by her husband and child, who still must choose between her marriage and what is not quite yet an infidelity. Ranging in setting from Atlanta to Chicago and Kansas City, from the arid Southwest to the course of a river running through Colorado canyon walls, the stories in The Expendables show our relationship with destiny, whether resisted, invented, obeyed, or forced.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York, NY
United States
Publishing group
Simon & Schuster
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
306 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-684-84685-9 (9780684846859)
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Person
Antonya Nelson teaches creative writing at the University of Houston, and is the award-winning author of three novels and four short story collections. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Best American Short Stories. She divides her time among Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico.
Content
Contents
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Maggie's Baby
The Expendables
Helen in Hollywood
You Boys Be Good
Dog Problems
Cold Places
Affair Lite
Mud Season
Looking for Tower Hall
Slickrock to Bedrock
Listener
Substitute
Maggie's Baby
The Expendables
Helen in Hollywood
You Boys Be Good
Dog Problems
Cold Places
Affair Lite
Mud Season
Looking for Tower Hall
Slickrock to Bedrock