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9780385720533

Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night Stories

by NISSEN, THISBE
  • ISBN13:

    9780385720533

  • ISBN10:

    038572053X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-10-17
  • Publisher: Anchor
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Summary

In Thisbe Nissen's award-winning debut story collection, characters teeter on the verge of love, of life, of oncoming cataclysms after which Things Will Never Be the Same. Against the varied backdrops of Grateful Dead shows, anniversary parties, sickrooms, and bright Manhattan vestibules, Nissen traces the joy, terror, and electric surprise that flash between people as they suddenly connect. A fifteen-year-old girl whose mother is slowly dying finds solace in the bed of her best friend's older brother. A wife remembers the early romance in her marriage as she watches her husband's hand, shaky with Parkinson's, lift a bite of food to his mouth. Longtime friends are jolted by their unforeseen attraction to each other; new lovers feel their way by instinct in vans, on futons, an during risky, late-night conversation. Knowing, often hilarious, and always pitch-perfect, Nissen's tales hang inside those moments when the heart is acting and the head is watching, hopeful that the heart is doing the right thing.

Author Biography

Thisbe Nissen is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a former James Michener Fellow. Her stories have appeared in <i>Story</i> and <i>Seventeen</i>. A native New Yorker, she now lives in Iowa.

Table of Contents

The Mushroom Girl
1(19)
Apple Pie
20(15)
When the Rain Washes You Clean You'll Know
35(11)
At the No. I Phoenix Garden
46(2)
Grover, King of Nebraska
48(12)
Way Back When in the Now Before Now
60(13)
Accidental Love
73(13)
After Twenty-Five Years, at the Palais Royal
86(3)
Flowers in the Dustbin, Poison in the Human Machine
89(25)
Grog
114(12)
How Beautifully Resilient the Human Being
126(13)
3 1/2 x 5
139(3)
What Safety Is
142(14)
The Animal's Best Interest
156(13)
819 Walnut
169(20)
Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night
189

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