Traps / Sondra Spatt Olsen.

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Olsen, Sondra Spatt, 1936-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Iowa short fiction awardPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1991.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (150)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1587291738
9781587291739
9780877453468
0877453462

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Traps.DDC classification:

813/.54 20

LOC classification:

PS3565.L79 T73 1991eb

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Contents:

The Butcher's Girl -- Harmony -- Working Nights as a Pickle -- Topaze -- 44-28 -- To Forget August -- A Rent-Stabilized Romance -- Surfaces -- Gypsy Ways -- Who Could Love a Fat Man? -- Quintessence of Zoe -- An Old-fashioned Woman -- Free Writing.

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Summary: Heroines in Sondra Spatt Olsen's compelling stories often find themselves in bad situations: a wife with an irresponsible husband, an older woman who wants to leave her younger lover, a suburban housewife who wants sex with her doctor, a teacher who falls in love with her student, a young girl haunted by her mother's judgments, a demanding career woman unsettled by her boyfriend's success, a young woman who finds that her friends, when drunk, are potential murderers. But just as Chekhov gives us pleasure from moments of pain, Olsen illuminates the universal humor and pathos of bad situations.

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Heroines in Sondra Spatt Olsen's compelling stories often find themselves in bad situations: a wife with an irresponsible husband, an older woman who wants to leave her younger lover, a suburban housewife who wants sex with her doctor, a teacher who falls in love with her student, a young girl haunted by her mother's judgments, a demanding career woman unsettled by her boyfriend's success, a young woman who finds that her friends, when drunk, are potential murderers. But just as Chekhov gives us pleasure from moments of pain, Olsen illuminates the universal humor and pathos of bad situations.

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