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I like this book because it has a real female voice. It is also relatable and fun to read. I'm currently reading Gold Mine which is about a mom with two kids who's husband's having an affair. She is an intelligent woman who has a lot to say about her experience. Although the author says this stories are fiction I think they have some truth in them. It seems like a good book.
Eleven short stores about Southern women who don't wait for events to carry them along in life. Instead, they try to take matters into their own hands and seize opportunities whatever the consequences. The women range in age from high school students to those widowed and retired and each is involved in conflicted and troubled relationships. McCorkle is able to capture the personalities of each woman in such a way that readers are reminded of episodes and emotions in their own lives. While the st...
Good short stories about Southern women and southern places
"Crash Diet" (the first and title story) is brilliantly funny, and "Waiting for Hard Times to End" hits you hard right where it's aiming. The New York Times Book Review called the collection (in apocalyptic prose) an indictment of the "shoddiness of the pleasures" of the world--to which I would say, um well sort of...--still, I agree with them that readers everywhere will pick up the book and cry, 'That's just how it is!' in the best way possible. When a book has me wondering why I keep buying t...
Laugh out loud funny! Great insight into the interior lives of a variety of quirky and unforgettable characters. Her use of language is brilliant at times - modern terminology creatively presented as noun, verb or adjective. Loved that aspect.
A really wonderful collection of short stories by a writer whose sense of the wonder and absurdity of existence leads to a deeply moving series of observations about the value and danger of change. The title story follows its narrator as she plunges into a hysterically suburban depression after her husband leaves her for a younger (and thinner) woman. Over the course of a monumentally impressive bout of crazies, the narrator eventually sheds so much weight that she has to be hospitalized, but th...
I quite liked this.Ms. McCorkle has a very good writing style, and these short stories show you how careful she is in her characterizations (something I abhor in many authors) and how many people she can 'step' into. I will seek out her other books.One story in particular had a protagonist that reminded me of myself--Maureen in First Union Blues, and the ending of the last story, Carnival Lights, I thought would end differently. So many good stories, just enough to wet your appetite but leave yo...
