Goodnight, Beautiful Women: Stories

✍ Scribed by Noyes, Anna

• Book ID: 109194378
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 523 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780802124845

✦ Synopsis

"This is an extraordinary book of stories. Many of the characters are anchored to coastal Maine, but a particular quality of wildness animates nearly all of them. The stories are energetic, often mysterious, and beautifully written, and they will stay in your memory long after you finish the book." --Charles Baxter
Moving along the Maine Coast and beyond, the interconnected stories in Goodnight, Beautiful Women bring us into the sultry, mysterious inner lives of New England women and girls as they navigate the dangers and struggles of their outer worlds. With novelistic breadth and a quicksilver emotional intelligence, Noyes explores the ruptures and vicissitudes of growing up and growing old, and shines a light on our most uncomfortable impulses while masterfully charting the depths of our murky desires.
A woman watches her husband throw one by one their earthly possessions into the local quarry, before vanishing himself; two girls from very different...