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The sensational new story collection from one of our sharpest, most original, and daringly cinematic stylists, and a National Book Award finalist, Christine Schutt

In tales of rare wit, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of longing and danger. An alcoholic actress takes her children to live in 'a rusted box on stilts' in the desert. In an exclusive island resort, a young family's holiday has terrible consequences. A newly-wed couple who, while still 'newly everything', fall in with a misanthropic painter burned by love. 'On the beach, they agreed, their daydreaming was sometimes dangerous.' Sch...

The sensational new story collection from one of our sharpest, most original, and daringly cinematic stylists, and a National Book Award finalist, Christine Schutt

Prosperous Friends proves Schutt to be one of the finest stylists alive."--Los Angeles Review of Books "Artful ...Astonishing ...Piercingly real ...The poetic concision and allusiveness of [Schutt's] prose give the story more heft than a mere two-hundred pages would suggest...Her sentences never waste a phrase or even a word. In these finely cut scenes ...Schutt deals killing blows with such short, precise movements that at first you barely re...

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Fatherless since she was seven, Alice is left in the care of her relatives at ten when her mother enters psychiatric care. Alice becomes a storyteller who must build her own home word by word as she moves ever further from the desolation of her mother's actions into adulthood.

The title of Christine Schutt's second collection strikes the theme of swiftly passing time that runs through each of the stories. In "The Life of the Palm and the Breast" a woman watches her half-grown children running through the house and wonders: Whose boys are these? Whose life is this? The title story tells of a grandfather who has lived long enough to see his daughter's struggles echoed in his granddaughter and how her unhappiness leads...

Über die Erziehung ihrer Kinder gestaltet eine Gesellschaft ihre eigene Zukunft. In diesem Buch zeigt die Medizinern Christine Schütt, dass alles Streiten über den richtigen Weg der Erziehung unserer Kinder nichts bringt, wenn man die zugrundeliegenden biologischen Gesetzmäßigkeiten der Interaktion von Eltern und Kleinkindern nicht kennt oder glaubt, sie ignorieren zu können. Die Außenansicht einer Nicht-Pädagogin wird schnell zu einem Blick i...

With prose that is at once sensual and spare, dreamlike and deliberate, Christine Schutt gives voice in this collection to what most keep hidden. Many of the stories take place in the home, where what is behind the thin domestic barriers of doors tends toward violence, unseemly sexual encounters, and mental anguish. Schutt opens these doors in sudden, bold moments and exposes the unsettling intimacy of the rooms and corridors of our innermost ...

-- First paperback edition.-- A mother teaches her son how to kiss. A father and his grown daughter share secrets while sharing their bodies. A woman finds she cannot experience her lover's touch without succumbing to intensely erotic recollections of a past lover. Webs of memory, oblique emotion and immediate sensation -- spun in prose that is spare, fevered, oblique and beautiful -- Nightwork's tales tease out the sexual and the violent imbe...

In 1997, at the distinguished Siddons School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the school year opens with distressing news: Astra Dell is suffering from a rare disease. Astra's friends try to reconcile the girl's suffering with their own fierce longings and impetuous attachments. Car writes unsparing letters, which the dirty Marlene, in her devotion, then steals. Other classmates carry on: the silly team of Suki and Alex pursue Will Bliss while ...

A haunting - and haunted -first novel by the celebrated author of "Nightwork.