Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women
Published on 16. May 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
134 pages
978-1-955593-05-2 (ISBN)
Description
Over the course of these nine stories, Mary Rechner brings a frank, humorous, and ultimately illuminating narrative voice to the subjects of sex, marriage, family, and work. Resisting expected behaviors and received opinions, the protagonists of Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women fight to maintain their sense of self amid mounting personal and social pressure. Rechner captures the journey of women who came of age at the end of the twentieth century and then tumbled headlong-in families, careers, and friendship-into a bewildering new era.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
153 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-955593-05-2 (9781955593052)
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Mary Rechner is the author of Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women, named to the long list for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and the novella The Opposite of Wow, published in the Hong Kong Review. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as New Letters, Harvard Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Kenyon Review, and Washington Square. Her criticism and essays have appeared in Litro, The Believer, Oregon Humanities, and the Oregonian. A recipient of fellowships from Literary Arts and the Regional Arts and Culture Council, as well as residencies from Caldera and the Vermont Studio Center, Rechner taught fiction writing at Portland State University and the University of Portland and now teaches media arts to high school students.