This Will Be Difficult to Explain And Other Stories

Name: This Will Be Difficult to Explain And Other Stories
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ISBN: 9780393073751

ISBN-10: 0393073750

ISBN-13: 9780393073751

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Authors: Johanna Skibsrud

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A young maid at a hotel in France encounters a man who asks to paint her portrait, only later discovering that the man is someone other than who we think. A divorced father, fearing estrangement from his thirteen-year-old daughter, allows her to take the wheel of his car, realizing too late that he’s made a grave mistake. A Canadian girl and her French host stumble upon the one story that transcends their language barrier. Time and again Johanna Skibsrud’s characters find themselves confronted with what they didn't know they didn't know, at the exact point of intersection between impossibility and desire. In This Will Be Difficult to Explain, Skibsrud, whose prose has been compared to…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/9/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Johanna Skibsrud is the author of two collections of poetry. The Sentimentalists, her first novel, won the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada's most prestigious literary award. She is also the author of a collection of short stories This Will Be Difficult To Explain. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.