In the Land of Men: Stories [Paperback]

In this powerful collection of stories, Antonya Nelson portrays women whose lives have slipped loose from their moorings and the men who can't really anchor them. Here we meet Roxanne, the tomboy who consistently chooses men who are not her equal; the loving Marta, whose husband keeps a separate house where he retreats when married life overwhelms him; and Bebe, a married mother of two teenagers who leaves it all behind when her lover comes on a motorcycle to claim her. With painfully keen perception, Nelson creates stories that linger in the mind long after they are read, and which create a unique view of relations between the sexes in the small towns and big cities of America.Antonya Nelsonteaches creative writing at the University of Houston, and is the award-winning author of three novels and four short story collections. Her stories have appeared inThe New Yorker,Harper's, andThe Best American Short Stories. She divides her time among Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico.CONTENTS
IN THE LAND OF MEN
THE HAPPY DAY
HUMAN HABITS
THE CONTROL GROUP
ADOBE
HERE ON EARTH
FIRE SEASON
GOODBYE, MIDWEST
INERTIA
FAIR HUNT
HOW MUCH WE COULD SEE
BARE KNEES
THE FACTS OF AIR
FORT DESPAIREdward AllenThe New York Times Book ReviewWonderful stories. What holds them together...is...Nelson's unsentimental generosity toward her characters, her perfectionism about detail, and...her understanding that unhappiness is not tragic -- it's just a fact of life.Charles Dickinson author ofWith or WithoutChildren, lovers, the dispossessed, the heartbroken, the purely evil, Antonya Nelson inhabits them all with the ease of a new master.Charles Baxter author ofBelieversWomen under the gaze of men gaze back in these vivid and memorable stories, which might have been written by a passionate anthropologist interel“R