Marian Thurm
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Language
English
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Melissa Fleischer, the twenty-five-year-old assistant to a famous New York editor--known to be a notorious philanderer--at a prestigious mainstream magazine begins to sell her short stories to the New Yorker, complicating her relationship with her boss and exerting pressure on her marriage.
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Language
English
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Stacy and Roger seem to have it all: a wonderful marriage, a luxury Upper East Side apartment, and two endearing young children enrolled in private schools. But Roger is drafting a suicide note, and keeps a Glock in his glove compartment. What appears to be "the good life" to their family and friends is not what it seems...
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"At the age of 25, Marian Thurm began publishing short stories in The New Yorker, and her work has been compared to the short fiction of Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, and Amy Bloom. Known for her uncanny sense of the absurd along with her empathy for her characters, Thurm's acclaimed work has been chosen for The Best American Short Stories and numerous other anthologies. This volume, selected from her four short story collections--with stories written...