Valerie Trueblood

• Jul-2006
• / General Fiction
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Who most deeply affects our lives? Sometimes it is those who touch us briefly, even unexpectedly. For May Nilsson, these include the lover she takes in her forties; the handsome, troubled young rebel she is determined to rescue; the police office...

• Nov-2010
• / Literary
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From the author of Seven Loves comes this austere, passionately shaped collection of stories that courageously explores the dynamic nature of modern marriage, the lifeâ€"shattering heartbreak that often accompanies its collapse, and the fickle way in...

• Jul-2013
• / Literary
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In the epigraph to this volume, Penelope Fitzgerald tells us: "If a story begins with finding, it must end with searching," and so we discover each story here to follow the arc of a search, just as each also contains a rescue. What is immediately ap...

• Jan-2016
• / Literary
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Valerie Trueblood is, simply put, one of the finest story writers who is currently working in the American language, as prize committees acknowledge. In this, her beautifully made third collection, each of the fifteen stories asks two defining questi...

• Aug-2018
• / Literary
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Shortlisted for the Pacific Northwest Book Award "Urgent, unnerving and tightly packed short fiction that covers enough ground for a library of novels." -- The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice Valerie Trueblood's writing has been praised ...