Jane McCafferty, Author . Perennial $12.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-056453-7
Like a favorite old mix tape, McCafferty's collection of 14 stories tugs at the heartstrings and illuminates life's pivotal moments. In "Family on Ice," a spunky X-ray technician longs for a divorced man who's smitten with their...
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Jane McCafferty, Author University of Pittsburgh Press $22.5 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8229-3729-6
Winner of the 1992 Drue Heinz Prize, McCafferty presents 11 powerful, melancholic stories whose theme is deterioration--of relationships and of the mind. Her weary characters usually feel abandoned, at least figuratively, by their families, but...
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Jane McCafferty, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (291p) ISBN 978-0-06-019263-1
Like her debut collection, Director of the World & Other Stories, which won the 1992 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, McCafferty's first novel focuses on the life-altering effects of love, loss and abandonment. Sisters Gladys and Ivy, both in their late
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