Kelly Cherry

• 1979
• / General Fiction
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A newly married young couple -- she is a flutist, he is a graduate student -- try to reconcile their differing backgrounds and attitudes. This leads to much merriment and a certain amount of sorrow. The book is set in New York City in the late sixtie...

• 1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1983
• / General Fiction
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IN THE WINK OF AN EYE is a modern fable in the form of a novel. Or a romantic satire. Or a social burlesque. Or an ironic fantasy. Or all of the above. Whatever the label, it's a joy to read.  This tale is about a revolution--a small, upstart, n...

• Apr-1990
• / General Fiction
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In a novel created from twelve connected stories, Cherry writes with lightness and grace about life's most serious subjects. Her plucky heroine travels a bumpy road from dependence to self-help, with a beacon of humor guiding the way....

• Jun-2004
• / General Fiction
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"Kelly Cherry brings an unerring ear and a poet's sensibility to her difficult task: unraveling the tangle of emotions in our all-too-human hearts."--Lee Smith ""We Can Still Be Friends "is Kelly Cherry at her best, which is to say it is a brilliant ...

• Sep-2009
• / Romance
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Is there any hope for a hypereducated thirty-year-old med student who would like nothing better than to be taken seriously sexually? That's what Mary "Tennessee" Settleworth, the dislocated heroine of this unsettling and wryly comic first novel, is w...

• Jan-2010
• / Literary
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The seven stories in The Woman Who take a close and sharp look at the complex relationships between art and reality, between imagination and identity. They offer illuminating glimpses of that old and continuing mystery, the creating mind. Kate, an ed...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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Life is A Kind of Dream. So is the art we make in response to life. In A Kind of Dream, five generations of an artistic family explore the ups and downs of life, discovering that for an artist even failure is success, because the work matters more th...

• Feb-2015
• / Literary
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In Fred Chappell’s introduction to The Kelly Cherry Reader, he writes, “Cherry is a flambeau example of the extremely conscious artist, a writer who mediates ceaselessly upon the problems and possibilities of the poem, the novel, the shor...

• May-2015
• / General Fiction
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Kelly Cherry's tenth work of fiction delivers twelve compelling stories about women of the American South. These are women struggling to find their way through the everyday workings of life while also navigating the maze of self. From a young woman's...

• Oct-2017
• / General Fiction
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According to Kelly Cherry, Temporium is something like, but not altogether like, a short-story collection, because not all of these pieces are stories. Nor is this a collection of prose poetry, though one or two entries may come close to that. At...