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Cargando... Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badlypor Lee Gutkind (Editor), Beth Ann Fennelly (Editor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Short stories about women behaving "badly". Loved it. ( ) Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I received this book through LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I found the title to be deceiving. I thought this book would be more of a collection of sexcapades written by southern women. While the stories did take place in the south, there was nothing really southern about them. Also, I found most of the stories a bit PG. I was expecting more erotica. I wouldn't describe these stories as bad, just didn't meet my expectations going into reading it. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. This book falls squarely in the category of "excellent beach read." There are plenty of great stories here, and the weaker ones are quickly over. It doesn't really matter whether the South, or the Sin, in these stories is anything like "reality." They are fun. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I've read a few stories, but am really disappointed in this collection. Thought it would have more substance but it's just kind of silly. If any of the stories get better, I'll redo my review. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I wish the stories had gone into more of what the "sultry south" represents. Many of the stories in this book could have really taken place in any part of the country, which was fairly disappointing. As with any compilation of short stories, there will be some winners and losers, but several of these stories just left me confused. I was anticipating more about how the South played into these women's lives -- the morality, the culture, the heat. I wish more of the stories had. As a woman who lives in the South I would have enjoyed the book much more if that had been the case. I just felt this was a bit disjointed and did not live up to the representation.
The collection is at its most affecting when it explores the sins with the highest stakes—acts that put our dearest relationships, or even our lives, in peril. Such transgressions also prompt the deepest moments of reckoning. The authors never present their darker lapses of judgment glibly. Instead, they tackle the difficult task of coming to terms with them. The results are often cathartic and moving. Southern Sin offers such a range of reckoning with mistakes that it could also be seen as an anthology of forgiveness. Set in the land of deep-fried Christian morality, a natural tension is created in each one of the anthology’s 23 stories, making for a mostly sexy, sometimes terrifying, but always exceptionally-crafted read. "Southern Sin" is a tantalizing ride through the steamy South In each of these true stories, the search for identity and acceptance, attention and excitement manifests itself in myriad ways, but always with the heart of Dixie at its core.
23 strange-but-true stories of women flirting with perdition... In the steamy South, temptation is as wild and plentiful as kudzu. Whether the sin in question is skinny-dipping or becoming an unlikely porn star, running rum or renting out a room to a pair of exhibitionistic adulterers, in these true stories women defy tradition and forge their own paths through life--often learning unexpected lessons from the experience. As Dorothy Allison writes in her introduction, "The most dangerous stories are the true ones, the ones we hesitate to tell, the adventures laden with fear or shame or the relentless pull of regret. Some of those are about things that we are secretly deeply proud to have done." A diverse array of contributors--mothers, daughters, sisters, best friends, fiancées, divorcees, professors, poets, lifeguards-in-training, lapsed Baptists, tipsy debutantes, middle-aged lesbians--lend their voices to this collection. Introspective and abashed, joyous and triumphant (but almost never apologetic), they remind us that sin, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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