Heartbreaker : stories / Maryse Meijer

Author: Meijer, Maryse, 1982-
Uniform Title: Short stories. Selections
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Copyright Date: ©2016
Edition: First edition.
Physical Description: 193 pages ; 20 cm

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Contents

Home -- Love, Lucy -- Heartbreaker -- Stiletto -- Shop lady -- The fire -- Fugue -- Jailbait -- Whole life ahead -- The daddy -- Rapture -- Stones -- The cheat.

Summary

"In her debut story collection, Heartbreaker, Maryse Meijer, flashlight in hand, goes deep into the darkest rooms of the psyche. With gorgeously restrained and exacting prose that packs a cumulatively devastating punch, she unapologetically unmasks the violence we are willing to perform upon one another in the name of love and loneliness and the unremitting desire to survive. In doing so, she lights societal convention and reader expectation on fire, exploring the darker emotional truths surrounding love and sex, femininity and masculinity, family and girlhood"--

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9780374536060 (paperback)
0374536066 (paperback)

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