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Send Me Work Stories

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ISBN-10: 0810152207

ISBN-13: 9780810152205

Edition: 2011

Authors: Katherine Karlin

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Unlike the heroines of domestic fiction, Katherine Karlin’s women face their biggest challenges outside of the house. The characters in this debut collection encompass a broad range of experience: a struggling young woman in post-Katrina New Orleans persuades a welder to teach her his trade; an orchestra oboist hears a confession from a beloved teacher; an idealistic aerobics instructor decamps for revolution- era Nicaragua to pick coffee on a farming collective. In each of these stories, Karlin offers rare insight into the place of work in the lives of women, her narrators keenly observant and attuned to the humor that arises when life doesn’t turn out as planned. But even more remarkable…    
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Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 10/31/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 170
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594