Mothers : twenty stories of contemporary motherhood

Book 1996

Twenty stories on contemporary motherhood. In Kate Braverman's Pagan Night, a mother debates whether to kill her unwanted child, while in Perri Klass' For Women Everywhere, a pregnant woman declines to be a tattletale by identifying the father

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ISBN:

9780865474987
0865474982

Edition:

First edition

Description:

343 pages ; 21 cm

Contents:

Before / Mary Grimm
Another marvelous thing / Laurie Colwin
For women everywhere / Perri Klass
Pagan night / Kate Braverman
Baby pictures / Molly Giles
Separation / Mary Gordon
The trouble with Sophie / Perri Klass
You'll be crying in a minute / Ronnie Sandroff
King of the sky / Roxana Robinson
Quality time / Barbara Kingsolver
Starlight / Marian Thurm
Chances with Johnson / Paula K. Gover
Deeds of love and rage / Marsha Lee Berkman
The instinct for bliss / Melissa Pritchard
Poltergeists / Jane Shapiro
The daguerreotype / Julia Whitty
In the gloaming / Alice Elliott Dark
Swimming to the top of the rain / J. California Cooper
Leaving home / Sue Miller
Zoo bus / Eileen FitzGerald

LCCN:

95052230

Control Number:

61838

Other Authors:

Hirsch, Kathleen
Kenison, Katrina

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