Confessions of a Falling Woman explained
Confessions of a Falling Woman and Other Stories |
Author: | Debra Dean |
Country: | USA |
Language: | English |
Genre: | Fiction |
Published: | 2008 (HarperCollins) |
Media Type: | Print (Hardback) |
Pages: | 224 |
Isbn: | 9780060825324 |
Oclc: | 924436770 |
Confessions of a Falling Woman and Other Stories is a 2008 short story collection by Debra Dean. It is a 2009 Paterson Fiction Prize winner,[1] and was on the longlist of the 2008 Florida Book Awards.[2]
Reception
A Guardian review of Confessions of a Falling Woman wrote "While Dean alternates between male and female narrators, there is an uncomfortable sameness." but concluded "...in these controlled, purposeful, slightly mocking stories, Dean vividly illuminates the present too."[3] The Financial Times wrote "She (Dean) knows the frailties and egocentricities of her thespian subjects well - and writes about them with wry eloquence."[4]
Confessions of a Falling Woman has also been reviewed by Publishers Weekly,[5] Kirkus Reviews,[6] Library Journal, and Booklist.[7]
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Notes and References
- Web site: The 2009 Paterson Fiction Prize . pccc.edu . The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College . May 27, 2018.
- Web site: 2008 Florida Book Award Winners: General Fiction . floridabookawards.lib.fsu.edu . Florida State University Libraries . May 27, 2018.
- News: Catherine Taylor . November 1, 2008 . Fiction: Lives unlived . The Guardian . May 27, 2018.
- News: Melissa McClements . October 20, 2008 . Fiction: Confessions of a Falling Woman . Financial Times . May 27, 2018.
- Web site: The Mirrored World . December 17, 2007 . Publishers Weekly. Readers will certainly forget themselves in these sparkling stories, pausing over small, strange moments that change entire lives. . PWxyz LLC. May 27, 2018.
- Web site: Confessions of a Falling Woman . January 15, 2008. Dean has a fine appreciation for the way chance can save or doom careers and marriages. . Kirkus Reviews . Kirkus Media LLC . May 27, 2018.
- Web site: Confessions of a falling woman : and other stories . Buffalo and Erie County Public Library . May 27, 2018.