Description
ISBN: 0060165049
Title: The Tomcat’s Wife and Other Stories
Author: Bly, Carol
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers, New York
Publication Date: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Book Condition: F
D-j Condition: F
Synopsis: The essays in Carol Bly’s Letters From the Country gave a voice to the people and events of her rural Minnesota. The stories in The Tomcat’s Wife do that and more. Unlike so many portraits of native places, there is nothing sentimentalized about this tractor-tilled setting. The landscape feels as authentic as the quietly fervent lives within it. In part this is due to Bly’s fresh storytelling language, a kind of literary plain talk filled with place-names, notations on the weather, and highway directions, perfectly suited to people better equipped for farming than communicating. But when episodes of suicide, homicide, and rape intrude, Bly’s characters work out their problems in ways that make these stories impressively universal.
