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Goodnight, Beautiful Women : Stories by Anna Noyes is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Goodnight, Beautiful Women : Stories about?

This is an extraordinary book of stories. Many of the characters are anchored to coastal Maine, but a particular quality of wildness animates nearly all of them. The stories are energetic, often mysterious, and beautifully written, and they will stay in your memory long after you finish the book. Charles Baxter Moving along the Maine Coast and beyond, the interconnected stories in Goodnight, Beautiful Women bring us into the sultry, mysterious inner lives of New England women and girls as they navigate the dangers and struggles of their outer worlds. With novelistic breadth and a quicksilver emotional intelligence, Noyes explores the ruptures and vicissitudes of growing up and growing old, and shines a light on our most uncomfortable impulses while masterfully charting the depths of our murky desires. A woman watches her husband throw one by one their earthly possessions into the local quarry, before vanishing himself; two girls from very different social classes find themselves deep in the throes of a punishing affair; a motherless teenager is sexually awakened in the aftermath of a local trauma; and a woman s guilt from a childhood lie about her intellectually disabled cousin rev

Who reads Goodnight, Beautiful Women : Stories?

Author

Anna Noyes

Publisher

Grove/Atlantic, Inc.; Perseus Book LLC (Ingram)

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802124845

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction