A Perfect Stranger: And Other Stories

In Roxana Robinson's lucid and elegant prose, her characters' inner worlds open up to us, revealing private emotional cores that are familiar in their needs, their secrets, and their longings. These people tell us the truth-not only about themselves, their relationships, and their lives, but about ourselves as well. A Perfect Stranger powerfully and affectingly examines the complex, intricate network of experiences that binds us to one another. These stories are tender, raw, lovely, fine-and they reaffirm Roxana Robinson's place at the forefront of modern literature.

Author: Roxana Robinson
Publisher: Random House Trade P
Published: 03/14/2006
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.47w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780812967357

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 105187 / Perfect Stranger: And Other Stories


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/09/2006 pg. 32

About the Author
ROXANA ROBINSON is the author of two novels, Sweetwater and This Is My Daughter; a biography of Georgia O'Keeffe; and two previous short-story collections, A Glimpse of Scarlet and Asking for Love. Four of her works have been named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. Robinson's fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harper's, Daedalus, and Vogue. She lives in New York City and Westchester County, New York.

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