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In the Land of Men
Nelson's acclaimed second collection of short stories portrays women whose lives have slipped from their moorings and who are unsure about what direction to take, and the men who are unable to anchor or touch them.
Female Trouble
"Nelson's prose is precise and energetic, and her insights delight because they manage to be at once surprising and so right as to seem inevitable." -- The New York Times Book Review Antonya Nelson is widely regarded as one of America's most talented women writers -- The New Yorker has named her one of the twenty best writers of her generation -- and with Female Trouble she returns to the short-story form with which she made her original literary mark. Thirteen wise, funny, and startlingly perceptive stories about the vagaries of marriage, the uncertainties of family, and the revelations of female life, Female Trouble looks at the relationships not just between men and women but also between...
Some Fun
One of the most award-winning, critically acclaimed story writers working today, Antonya Nelson has a list of accolades that is astonishing for any writer, but especially for one as young as she. With her newest collection, Nelson once again proves herself worthy of her stellar reputation, delivering seven taut, striking stories and a brilliant novella, all exploring the tensions of troubled family relations. Nelson is an extraordinary chronicler of the fraught relationships between parents and children and husbands and wives. With her particular understanding of the threats and vulnerabilities of wild adolescence, as well as the complicated, persistent love that often lies dormant beneath t...
Nothing Right
A collection of short works by a noted New Yorker fiction writer includes the National Magazine Award-nominated tale "Or Else," and features characters who struggle to keep themselves intact when their personal lives unravel.
Funny Once
Michael Chabon once said, "I scan the tables of contents of magazines, looking for Antonya Nelson's name, hoping that she has decided to bless us again." And now she has blessed us again, with a bounty of the stories for which she is so beloved. Her stories are clear-eyed, hard-edged, beautifully formed. In the title story, "Funny Once," a couple held together by bad behavior fall into a lie with their more responsible friends. In "The Village," a woman visits her father at a nursing home, recalling his equanimity at her teenage misdeeds and gaining a new understanding of his own past indiscretions. In another, when a troubled girl in the neighborhood goes missing, a mother worries increasin...
Talking in Bed
Two men meet in hospital where their fathers have died, one is a manual worker, the other a psychologist. The psychologist invites the other home, they have dinner with their wives and adultery follows. A study in characters, class and domestic crisis.
Family Terrorists
In the dazzling novella that gives this collection its title, a fractured family gathers for an unlikely reunion. Small acts of emotional blackmail keep old antagonisms alive. The novella caps seven superb short stories, each a variation on the theme of "family terrorism".
Bound
Even after nearly two decades together, the Desplaines have their secrets. Oliver, an aging Wichita entrepreneur, is on his third marriage, and has recently found an even younger mistress. Catherine, his seemingly content wife, has a more colorful past than her husband knows, and it's about to come rushing back when Catherine learns she's been named guardian of a teenage girl she's never met. Meanwhile, the Wichita media is buzzing with the reemergence of a serial killer who haunted Catherine's own adolescence; a murderer has been hiding in plain sight, raising questions of how little any of us can truly know of our neighbors, our loved ones, or ourselves. Praise for Bound (A New York Times ...
Living to Tell
The story of a tight-knit clan in a tumultuous year of readjustment following the homecoming of one of their own from prison.
The Expendables
In vignettes that capture the pleasures and pains of our most intimate relationships, this debut collection displays the author's off-beat perceptions, humor, and sensibility.
