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Death Is Not an Option: Stories

✍ Scribed by Rivecca, Suzanne

Book ID: 109240022
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 117 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780393079128

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✦ Synopsis

"Ruthlessly frank. . . . Recalls Holden Caulfield by way of John Hughes."--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)In these stories, a teacher obsesses over a student who comes to class with scratch marks on his face; a Catholic girl graduating high school finds a warped kind of redemption in her school's contrived class rituals; and a woman looking to rent a house is sucked into a strangely inappropriate correspondence with one of the landlords. These are just a few of the powerful plotlines in Suzanne Rivecca's gorgeously wrought collection. From a college student who adopts a false hippie persona to find love, to a young memoirist who bumps up against a sexually obsessed fan, the characters in these fiercely original tales grapple with what it means to be honest with themselves and the world.

These stories explode "with piercing insight . . . illuminating the dangerous dance between victims and saviors. [They] deliver us to the edge of grief,...

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