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libscigrl's review
4.0
A slim book of six short stories by the ever prolific JCO, this one written in the early 80s.
Her typical themes exist in all of these stories- broken love, improper lust, clashing relationships and dark, inner thoughts. JCO sits right in the brain of each of her central characters, writing down the uncomfortable, dark, questioning things that humans of all types sometimes think.
These stories include a woman's response to finding her husband has been cheating, a forbidden relationship between cousins, a man who witnesses a murder, a man who seeks his own destruction, an illicit affair, a celebrated writer meeting her lover's son years after the affair.
FAVORITE LINE:
"She did not at that time think exactly of betrayal, in the sense in which she had been 'betrayed,' their marriage 'betrayed.' Her husband's passion excluded her. It had nothing to do with her at all."
Her typical themes exist in all of these stories- broken love, improper lust, clashing relationships and dark, inner thoughts. JCO sits right in the brain of each of her central characters, writing down the uncomfortable, dark, questioning things that humans of all types sometimes think.
These stories include a woman's response to finding her husband has been cheating, a forbidden relationship between cousins, a man who witnesses a murder, a man who seeks his own destruction, an illicit affair, a celebrated writer meeting her lover's son years after the affair.
FAVORITE LINE:
"She did not at that time think exactly of betrayal, in the sense in which she had been 'betrayed,' their marriage 'betrayed.' Her husband's passion excluded her. It had nothing to do with her at all."
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