Three Short Novels (The Son; The Lights of Earth; Conference of Victims)

✍ Scribed by Berriault, Gina

• Book ID: 108890953
• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 263 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781619023604

✦ Synopsis

Gina Berriault's work as a storywriter of great psychological empathy and extraordinary elegance and subtlety was celebrated widely at the end of her life. Her collection Women in Their Beds , won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, the National Books Critics Prize in fiction and the Rea Prize for lifetime achievement. She has few equals in the history of the American short story. Over the course of her career she also wrote several novels and novellas, and we have here a collection of the three finest, which have each been published before as separate volumes but which have been out of print and unavailable for many years. They each can be counted among her finest work.
The Son was first published in 1962, The Conference of Victims in 1966. And The Lights of Earth , first published in 1984, stands easily alongside her greatest achievements. All three are stories about women. In The Son , Vivian believes men run the world and finds meaning...