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Abigail Thomas Herb's Pajamas (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Herb's Pajamas
- Publication Name
- Herb's Pajamas
- Title
- Herb's Pajamas
- Format
- Book, Trade Paperback, Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1565121899
- EAN
- 9781565121898
- ISBN
- 9781565121898
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 03/01/1998
- Release Year
- 1998
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 7.2in
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Textbook
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author)
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 12 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 212 Pages
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With her own special brand of delicate, elliptical, and humorous fiction, Abigail Thomas offers another extraordinary visit with people she knows far better than they know themselves. There's Walter, newly abandoned by his wife; there's Edith, a fiftyish virgin; there's Bunny, taking care of her mother and her mother's boyfriend; and there's Belle, whose married lover dies in the hallway wearing her dead husband Herb's pajama top. Blindly, they encounter one another in ways the reader recognizes are profound even as the characters themselves are unaware. The genius and the art in this collection derives from the possibility that these ships might actually find each other by daylight. If only these four could get together--they'd be so good for each other. "Written with an expert touch, and a wise and tender sensibility. The effect is subtle, strong, and comic."--Charles Baxter, author of BELIEVERS and BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE; "It's hard to think she is capable of writing anything that isn't immediately engaging and a joy to read. Probably someone should publish her shopping lists."--Elizabeth Berg, author of TALK BEFORE SLEEP. A BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB SELECTION
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN-10
1565121899
ISBN-13
9781565121898
eBay Product ID (ePID)
438960
Product Key Features
Book Title
Herb's Pajamas
Format
Book, Trade Paperback, Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
212 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3570.H53h47 1998
Edition Description
Teacher's Edition
Reviews
A less commercial book than Herb's Pajamas is difficult to imagine. Part novel, part collection of interlinked stories, it follows four New Yorkers living lives of quiet desperation on a single square block of Manhattan's Upper West Side. In the first and perhaps most fully realized section, a mild-mannered copyeditor both mourns and fails to understand his much-loved wife's departure. Cleverly divided into tiny vignettes entitled "Hat," "Gloves," and so on, "Edith's Wardrobe" follows a "trembly maiden of 52" as she daydreams her way through the aftermath of her mother's death. In the third section, a 14-year-old runs away from home to search for her missing sister, while the aging narrator of the brief title story finds her married lover dead on the fire escape and must decide what to do with his body. Rather than bring these lonely people together in a more conventionally novelistic way, Thomas instead allows them to brush by each other in the street without ever noticing, much as they might in real life. Thomas's characters haunt the same bookstores, the same neighborhood cafés, and the reader experiences the thrill of recognition when their paths cross. (Is that Walter we spot in the movie theater lobby? Is the "woman in the green shawl" the bookstore owner, and has he finally asked her out?) The choice is both daring and apt. As much as these characters want to connect to the world around them, their inability to do so is precisely the point of this slender, quietly witty book. , The four lonely Upper West Siders who inhabit this muted but moving collection of 18 related short stories have each lost something and want it back. Middle-aged Walter's wife has left him, and he can't come to terms with her desire merely to be his friend. Edith, "a trembly maiden of 52" who has never seen a man naked, yearns to connect but doesn't know how, while her neighbor, the widowed, aging Belle, finds her own lover, "the sweetest man who ever lived," dead in the kitchen and must dispose of his body. The most appealing character is the protagonist of "Bunny's Sister," a gently drawn account of a 14-year-old's journey to find her runaway sibling, who disappeared one day after announcing: "I'm smoke." Along the way, we gradually come to understand that Bunny has known all along how her journey will end, and that makes her sadness sharper for the reader. Although the carefully chronicled minor events that make up these stories don't always amount to much on their own, Thomas (An Actual Life) has a way with details that makes for endings as bittersweet as her beginnings. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright Date
1998
Lccn
97-032433
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
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