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008			120608s2012 pau o 00 0 eng d
020			_a9780822978466
020			_a0822978466
020			_z9780822944195 (hardback)
020			_z0822944197
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aPS3552.O795 _bS68 2012
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100	1		_aBosworth, Beth, _d1957-
245	1	4	_aThe source of life, and other stories _h[electronic resource] / _cBeth Bosworth.
260			_aPittsburgh : _bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, _c2012. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (218 p.)
500			_aDrue Heinz Literature Prize, 2012 --Text.
520			_a"Post-divorce dating is one more cause for celebration (or a quick call in to the police) in Beth Bosworth's revelatory new book, The Source of Life and Other Stories. The spine of this collection is a series of linked stories about Ruth Stein, a Brooklyn author whose first book has exposed her father's abuses; while the voice here, speaking across a lifetime, ranges from bittersweet to humorous to lethal. In other stories Bosworth's narrators--a mother left to care for her son's suicidal dog, an editor haunted by a dog-eared manuscript--seem to grab hold of the reins and run off with their fates. Meanwhile Bosworth explores the extended family, the bonds of friendship, an apocalyptic Vermont, the rank yet redeemable Gowanus Canal; also rites of passage, race relations, divorce, middle-aged romance, dementia, funerals, alcoholism, and the Jewish religion. Reality is just another stumbling block for Bosworth's characters, who might help themselves but don't always choose to. There are leaps of faith here, nonetheless, as the collection dispenses a kind of narrative psychotropic for survival and redemption, with a chaser of humor mixed in"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"From "The Eight Rhetorical Mode" Later he asked, "Would you like to go for a hike sometime?" and two trains of thought left the station: He means to get to know me and we might leave the city together and it's been a long time since I climbed a mountain. That train chugged into a wider brighter country all the time. The other train went by another route through the panicked interior. He's a lunatic, it whistled. He's been in and out of hospitals. He will take you to a mountaintop and throw you right off into the bright air: choo choo! Post-divorce dating is one more cause for celebration (or a quick call in to the police) in Beth Bosworth's revelatory new book, The Source of Life and Other Stories. The spine of this collection is a series of linked stories about Ruth Stein, a Brooklyn author whose first book has exposed her father's abuses; while the voice here, speaking across a lifetime, ranges from bittersweet to humorous to lethal. In other stories Bosworth's narrators--a mother left to care for her son's suicidal dog, an editor haunted by a dog-eared manuscript--seem to grab hold of the reins and run off with their fates. Meanwhile Bosworth explores the extended family, the bonds of friendship, an apocalyptic Vermont, the rank yet redeemable Gowanus Canal; also rites of passage, race relations, divorce, middle-aged romance, dementia, funerals, alcoholism, and the Jewish religion. Reality is just another stumbling block for Bosworth's characters, who might help themselves but don't always choose to. There are leaps of faith here, nonetheless, as the collection dispenses a kind of narrative psychotropic for survival and redemption, with a chaser of humor mixed in. "-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aFICTION / Short Stories (single author). _2bisacsh
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
830		0	_aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780822978466/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c36279 _d36279