基本信息出版社：Harper Perennial
页码：256 页
出版日期：2008年01月
ISBN：0060825324
条形码：9780060825324
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：P.S.
外文书名：堕落女人的自白
内容简介 在线阅读本书
A surprised Southern matriarch is confronted by her family at an intervention. . . . A life-altering break-in triggers insomniac introspection in a desperate actor. . . . Streetwise New York City neighbors let down their guard for a naïve puppeteer and must suffer the consequences. . . .
In this stunning collection of short stories—five of which are being published for the very first time—bestselling, award-winning author Debra Dean displays the depth and magnitude of her extraordinary literary talent. Replete with the seamless storytelling and captivating lyrical voice that made her debut novel, The Madonnas of Leningrad, a national bestseller, Dean's Confessions of a Falling Woman is a haunting, satisfying, and unforgettable reading experience.
作者简介
Debra Dean worked as an actor in New York theater for nearly a decade before opting for the life of a writer and teacher. She and her husband now live in Miami, where she teaches at the University at Miami. She is at work on her second novel.
编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly
Dean follows her debut novel, The Madonnas of Leningrad, with a humorous collection chronicling struggling actors and actresses, therapy sessions and romantic relationships on the brink of disaster. After a bizarre break-in, the 30-something actor-narrator of Dan in the Gray Flannel Rat Suit finds himself on the cusp of fleeing a cruel New York with his wife and child. The Queen Mother reveals an actress returning to Louisiana to help coax her dramatic, alcoholic mom to rehab. In The Afterlife of Lyle Stone, a Seattle attorney allows a vivid dream to unhinge his waking life, while a group of creative-minded neighbors have their lives shaken up by a Muppet-like puppeteer in What the Left Hand Is Saying. Herself a former actress, Dean illuminates the nastiness of the business and the psychic toll of performance, writing about failure and loss with unfailing comic precision: But gradually I fall under the spell of my own acting, or the rhythm of the act, it doesn't matter which, the narrator of Romance Manual says of sleeping with a fellow cast member. Readers will certainly forget themselves in these sparkling stories, pausing over small, strange moments that change entire lives. (Feb.)
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A. Manette Ansay, author of Blue Water and Vinegar Hill
"Dean is a marvelous chameleon of a writer, adapting, reflecting, revealing multiple, generous worlds with perceptiveness, humor and light."
Kirkus Reviews
"An attractive wry humor ripples through this collection of ten stories . . . Beautifully calibrated . . . Dean has a fine appreciation for the way chance can save or doom careers and marriages. More, please."
Publishers Weekly
"A humorous collection . . . Readers will certainly forget themselves in these sparkling stories, pausing over small, strange moments that change entire lives."
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
Dean follows her debut novel, The Madonnas of Leningrad, with a humorous collection chronicling struggling actors and actresses, therapy sessions and romantic relationships on the brink of disaster. After a bizarre break-in, the 30-something actor-narrator of Dan in the Gray Flannel Rat Suit finds himself on the cusp of fleeing a cruel New York with his wife and child. The Queen Mother reveals an actress returning to Louisiana to help coax her dramatic, alcoholic mom to rehab. In The Afterlife of Lyle Stone, a Seattle attorney allows a vivid dream to unhinge his waking life, while a group of creative-minded neighbors have their lives shaken up by a Muppet-like puppeteer in What the Left Hand Is Saying. Herself a former actress, Dean illuminates the nastiness of the business and the psychic toll of performance, writing about failure and loss with unfailing comic precision: But gradually I fall under the spell of my own acting, or the rhythm of the act, it doesn't matter which, the narrator of Romance Manual says of sleeping with a fellow cast member. Readers will certainly forget themselves in these sparkling stories, pausing over small, strange moments that change entire lives. (Feb.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
A. Manette Ansay, author of Blue Water and Vinegar Hill
"Dean is a marvelous chameleon of a writer, adapting, reflecting, revealing multiple, generous worlds with perceptiveness, humor and light."
Kirkus Reviews
"An attractive wry humor ripples through this collection of ten stories . . . Beautifully calibrated . . . Dean has a fine appreciation for the way chance can save or doom careers and marriages. More, please."
Publishers Weekly
"A humorous collection . . . Readers will certainly forget themselves in these sparkling stories, pausing over small, strange moments that change entire lives."