Molly Giles
Autor de Iron Shoes
Sobre El Autor
Molly Giles is the Author of three award winning story collections, Rough Translations, Creek Walk, and Bothered, and a novel, Iron Shoes. Previous awards include the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Small Press Short Fiction Award, the Boston Globe Award, the Bay Area Book Reviewers mostrar más Award, two Pushcart Prizes, and an NEA grant. mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Courtesy of Squaw Valley Community of Writers
Obras de Molly Giles
Obras relacionadas
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Contribuidor — 379 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- King, Molly M.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1942
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Organizaciones
- University of Arkansas
- Premios y honores
- Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (1985)
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 5
- También por
- 5
- Miembros
- 164
- Popularidad
- #129,117
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 17
- Idiomas
- 1
"You could get a job anywhere," Dieter said.
I opened my mouth but did not cut him off. I liked being told that. I felt like a house cat who is being cooed to even as it's being dropped out the back door at bedtime. I'll look for an executive position in Paris, I thought. I'll see what's open in the South Pacific. I'll show her, I thought, and then I thought: no. Calm down. This has nothing to do with Lenora Press. She's a quiet, decent, hardworking, intelligent, and resourceful--child--but it's not her fault. It's not even their fault, the officers. I thought of the three men who had interviewed me for the promotion. One was a closet gay and one was an alcoholic and one was an old-fashioned skirt chaser. They were all depressed and out of shape, and facing retirement, and I wouldn't want to be them, or be like them, and it probably showed. That's what happened. It probably showed.
Shortly thereafter, her adolescent daughter gives her a consoling hug. After a brief sympathetic exchange . . .
I patted her, the way you do when you want someone to let go of you, and after a second she lifted her head and gave me one of those long, full, tragic looks she's picked up from television sitcom shows.
One or two of the stories have a touch of magical realism to them, as well. This collection was published in 1996, and I wondered if they would turn out to be timepieces in some ways. But I didn't get the feeling that the issues these stories deal with, or the way Giles presents them, were dated at all. Though I'll say that it seems very strange to even be considering the possibility that something published in 1996 could be dated. 1996 was yesterday, if by "yesterday" one means almost a quarter century ago!
One point of full disclosure. Molly Giles was on the faculty of San Francisco State University when I was working on my MA Degree in Creative Writing there. I never took a seminar with her, but she did substitute for one of my seminars when the teacher had to step away for a few weeks for health issues. Everybody in the program liked her, and she liked the one story of mine she had to read for that seminar.… (más)