Emergency: Stories

A professor finds a photograph of her deceased mother in a compromising position on the wall of...
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Author: Kathleen Alcott
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Language: English
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Emergency: Stories by Alcott, Kathleen

Emergency: Stories

$50.64

Emergency: Stories

$50.64
Author: Kathleen Alcott
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A professor finds a photograph of her deceased mother in a compromising position on the wall of a museum. A twenty-something's lucrative remote work sparks paranoia and bigotry. A transplant to a new city must make a choice about who she trusts when her partner reveals a violent history. The summer after her divorce from an older man, an exiled painter's former friends grapple with rumors that she attempted to pass as a teenager.

In this long-awaited debut collection, Kathleen Alcott turns her skills as a stylist on the unfreedoms of American life--as well as the guilt that stalks those who survive them. Emergency roams from European cities to scorched California towns, drug-smeared motel rooms to polished dinner parties, taking taut, surprising portraits of addiction, love, misogyny, and sexual power. Confronting the hidden perils of class ascension, the women in these stories try to pay down the psychic debts of their old lives as they search for a new happiness they can afford.



Author: Kathleen Alcott
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 07/18/2023
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.86w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781324051886


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/22/2023
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2023
Booklist 06/01/2023 pg. 27

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