History on a Personal Note: Stories

✍ Scribed by Binnie Kirshenbaum

• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 187
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From New York City to the former East Germany, from rural Virginia to affluent suburbia, the characters in these short stories grapple with love, loss, greed, perversion, and other awful truths as they try to transcend their limitations with occasional humor and dignity. In "History on a Personal Note," Lorraine, a Southerner, wonders if her German paramour will find the inspiration to leave his wife amidst the destruction of the Berlin Wall. In "Viewing Stacy from Above," a pregnant woman descends into a pit of despair as she contemplates the constraints of motherhood. In "Money Honey," a young adulteress who ditches her husband is reprimanded by an extended family of elders whose morals are even more dubious than her own. Contemplative, allegorical, and witty, HISTORY ON A PERSONAL NOTE takes us into a world laced with black humor and makes us laugh -- until it hurts.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 2
Dedication Page......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
History on a Personal Note......Page 6
For Widgit Stands......Page 19
Money Honey......Page 30
Faith Is a Girl's Name......Page 43
In the Beginning......Page 50
Carlotta......Page 53
Halfway to Farmville......Page 61
White Houses......Page 77
Courtship......Page 94
Jewish but Not Really......Page 106
The Zen of Driving......Page 109
Viewing Stacy from Above......Page 124
Exclusive Pleasures......Page 142
A Full Life of a Different Nature......Page 145
The Cape Man......Page 159
Rural Delivery......Page 167
Acknowledgments......Page 181
About the Author......Page 182
Praise......Page 183
Also by Binnie Kirshenbaum......Page 184
Credits......Page 185
Copyright Notice......Page 186
About the Publisher......Page 187