Interesting Women

''Interesting women - are we ever going to be free of them? I meet them everywhere these days, now that there is no longer such a thing as an interesting man...'' So drawls the narrator of one of Andrea Lee''s jewel-like stories, herself, undeniably, an Interesting Woman. These gleaming, sensual stories bend a wit worthy of Colette''s on a demimonde of expatriates, teenage ''pocket divas'', girlfriends, wives, mistresses and daughters. Each focuses on a moment of seduction, of self-discovery, where the mocking detachment of the outsider is briefly pulled aside. An American, chained by her Italian husband''s belief in her conventional wholesomeness, surprises him with two costly call girls for his birthday; but her pleasure in her own daring remains wistfully private. A New England beauty has a brief love affair, alternately lyrical and perverse, with a European prince more than twice her age. A woman, having earlier left her husband ''in a moment of epic distraction'', has his new ex to stay, changing forever their understanding of the man they both married. ''Interesting Women'' teases the reader with ironic glimpses of the charged games of sexual power between men and women, and women with each other. It is that delicious rarity: a summer read of sophisticated intelligence, whose gorgeous images will linger long.

About the author

Andrea Lee is the author of two previous books, one of which, ‘Russian Journal’, was nominated for a National Book Award. She has had numerous stories published in the New Yorker and included in the annual O. Henry Best American Short Story anthologies. She lives with her husband and two children in Italy.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Lee, Lee Andrea
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.07.2008
• EAN: 9780007292134
• ISBN: 978-0-00-729213-4
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, FICTION / Satire, Family life fiction, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary, The;Brontë;Love;Family;Marriage;Romance;Modern