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008    170111s2017    xxk    e      000 j eng d 
020    9781472152770|q(paperback) 
020    1472152778 
041 0  eng 
082 04 813.6|223 
092 0  Noveller|bengelska 
100 1  Gay, Roxane,|eauthor 
240 10 Short stories.|kSelections 
245 10 Difficult women /|cRoxane Gay 
264  1 London|bCorsair,|c2017 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    viii, 260 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 8  Innehåll: |tI will follow you --|tWater, all its weight --
       |tThe mark of Cain --|tDifficult women --|tFLORIDA --|tLa 
       negra blanca --|tBaby arm --|tNorth country --|tHow --
       |tRequiem for a glass heart --|tIn the event of my 
       father's death --|tBreak all the way down --|tBad priest -
       -|tOpen marriage --|tA pat --|tBest features --|tBone 
       density --|tI am a knife --|tThe sacrifice of darkness --
       |tNoble things --|tStrange gods 
520    Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay 
       burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New 
       York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist 
       (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with Difficult Women, a 
       collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of 
       hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed
       human connection. The women in these stories live lives of
       privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and
       haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of 
       sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they 
       were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the
       elder sister's marriage. A woman married to a twin 
       pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother 
       impersonate each other. A stripper putting herself through
       college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer.
       A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job and 
       faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues and the 
       difficulty of leaving her past behind. From a girls' fight
       club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors 
       conform, compete, and spy on each other, Gay delivers a 
       wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America 
       reminiscent of Merritt Tierce, Jamie Quatro, and Miranda 
       July 
650  0 Short stories, American 
655  7 Noveller|2saogf