Review
From the book jacket: In Roxana Robinson's
lucid and elegant prose, her characters' inner worlds open up to us,
revealing private emotional cores that are familiar in their needs,
their secrets, and their longings. These people tell us the truth –
not only about themselves, their relationships, and their lives, but
about ourselves as well.
A Perfect Stranger powerfully and affectingly examines the
complex, intricate network of experiences that binds us to one
another. These stories are tender, raw, lovely, and fine–and they
reaffirm Roxana Robinson's place at the forefront of modern
literature.
Comment: Short stories are often overlooked in favor of novels, but why when...
Beyond the Book
Roxana Robinson is the author of two novels,
Sweetwater and
This Is My Daughter; a biography of
Georgia O'Keeffe; and two previous short-story collections,
A
Glimpse of Scarlet and
Asking for Love. Most, if not
all, of her works have been named Notable Books of the Year by
The New York Times. She has received fellowships from the
Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and
the MacDowell Colony. Her fiction has appeared in
Best
American Short Stories,
The Atlantic,
The New
Yorker,
Harper's, Daedalus, and
Vogue. She
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