NIGHTWORK PA

by SCHUTT,CHRISTINE

• ISBN13: 9781564782397
• ISBN10: 1564782395
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-06-17
• Publisher: JOHN MUIR

Summary

-- First paperback edition.
-- A mother teaches her son how to kiss. A father and his grown daughter share secrets while sharing their bodies. A woman finds she cannot experience her lover's touch without succumbing to intensely erotic recollections of a past lover. Webs of memory, oblique emotion and immediate sensation -- spun in prose that is spare, fevered, oblique and beautiful -- Nightwork's tales tease out the sexual and the violent imbedded in the mundane.
-- Christine Schutt lives and works in New York City. This is her first book.
-- First published by Knopf ('96).

Table of Contents

You Drive	3	(16)
The Summer After Barbara Claffey	19	(12)
What Have You Been Doing?	31	(6)
Good Night, Sweetheart	37	(4)
Religion	41	(10)
Dead Men	51	(6)
Daywork	57	(8)
An Unseen Hand Passed over Their Bodies	65	(2)
The Enchantment	67	(12)
Metropolis	79	(6)
To Have and to Hold	85