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Widow, February 2011
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Stories
Bellevue Literary Press
February 2011
On Sale: February 1, 2011
192 pages
ISBN: 1934137308
EAN: 9781934137307
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Fiction Family Life
“In prose shimmering with intelligence and compassion,
Michelle Latiolais dissects the essentials of everyday life
to find the heartbeat within.”—Alice Sebold, author of The
Lovely Bones “Pulse[s] with a surprising, offbeat erotic energy.”—Elle “Sublime . . . [Latiolais] manages to find something
luminous in the broken shards—still sharp, still drawing
blood—that remain in the wake of losing what could not
feasibly be lost.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Latiolais is as close to Alice Munro as a writer can get,
but with a more modern edge to her tone, low graceful notes,
not too much flash, perfect restraint and the feeling of
contents under pressure.”—Los Angeles Times “Widow is a hymn to reverence, simultaneously heartbroken
and celebratory. Michelle Latiolais has given us the rarest
item, a splendidly articulated masterpiece.”—William Kittredge “In this luminous collection of stories, the gifted Michelle
Latiolais writes of loss in all its surprising
manifestations. Widow is a devastation and a
wonder.”—Christine Schutt “There is something mysterious about this book, as there
always is in the writing that matters most. It eludes
explanation. It illumines terrifying realities. Only because
these pages seem nakedly willing to take the imprint of
every emotion, no matter how ugly, do they possess this
great beauty.”—Elizabeth Tallent The stories of Widow conjure the nuances of inner sensations
as if hitting the notes of a song, deftly played across
human memory. These meditations bravely explore the
physiology of grief through a masterful interweaving of
tender insight and unflinching detail.
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