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Why I Don't Write
- And Other Stories
- Narrated by: Alex McKenna, Kristen Sieh, Andrew Eiden
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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Why I Don't Write
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Publisher's Summary
A superb collection of short fiction - her first in thirty years and spanning many geographies - from the critically acclaimed author of Monkeys, Evening, and Thirty Girls. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK.
A writer dryly catalogs the myriad reasons she cannot write; an artist bicycles through a protest encampment in lower Manhattan and ruminates on an elusive lover; an old woman on her deathbed calls out for a man other than her husband; a hapless fifteen-year-old boy finds himself in sexual peril; two young people in the 1990s fall helplessly in love, then bicker just as helplessly, tortured by jealousy and mistrust. In each of these stories, Minot explores the difficult geometry of human relations, the lure of love and physical desire, and the lifelong quest for meaning and connection. Her characters are all searching for truth, in feeling and in action, as societal norms are upended and justice and coherence flounder. Urgent and immediate, precisely observed, deeply felt, and gorgeously written, the stories in Why I Don't Write showcase an author at the top of her form.
What the critics say
"Searing... Minot's lyricism is all her own... Minot still has a poet’s instinct for the surprising volta, the striking image, the bracing final line. After 30 years away from the short story, it is good to have her back, cleareyed and fearless as ever, whispering difficult truths and ambiguities that a less assured writer would feel compelled to shout." (The New York Times)
"Sterling... Pristine... fully formed, often erotic, gorgeous, and searing...Minot isexceptionally attuned to forces intimate and social, and her gift for potent distillation yields stories that are stunning in every sense of the word." (Booklist)
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