The Melting Pot
Stories
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
A dynamic collection of stories that portrays different generations and explores various genres with compassion and dry wit
In The Melting Pot, nothing is ever what it seems. In these short stories from critically acclaimed author Lynne Sharon Schwartz, characters grapple with the desires and needs of daily life, no matter how absurd or mundane. In the title story, a woman finally reveals her tangled family history to her widowed lover. In another tale, an ageing womanizer undergoes more than just a midlife crisis. In "So You're Going to Have a New Body!" a woman experiences a surreal surgical sterilization.
The Melting Pot demonstrates Schwartz's many talents coalescing into a determined and striking whole.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
``This skillful collection reconfirms Schwartz's keen ear for dialogue and astute, multilayered portraiture of people and places,'' wrote PW. The author, ``whose hallmark is realistic, recognizable characters, here explores the fluid tenuousness of identity . ''
