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Informationen zum Autor Lisa Lenzo's first story collection, Within the Lighted City, was chosen by Ann Beattie for the 1997 John Simmons Short Fiction Award and published by the University of Iowa Press. Lenzo's other awards include a Hemingway Days Festival Award, a PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award, and first prize for 2013 from the Georgetown Review. Her stories and essays have appeared in the Mississippi Review, Sacred Ground: Stories About Home, Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes, and on NPR. Klappentext The nine stories of Strange Love center on Annie Zito, a smart-but-not-always-wise divorced mother, and Marly, her strong yet vulnerable daughter, as they seek and stumble upon an odd cast of boys and men. While each tale stands alone, together they make up a larger whole, the focus shifting between mother and daughter as Annie tries to protect her child and find a lasting relationship with a man, and Marly learns how to navigate and survive the romantic and sexual arena and find her place in the larger world. By turns comical and poignant, lyrical and incisive, Strange Love displays Lenzo's storytelling gifts at their finest. Zusammenfassung The nine stories of Strange Love centre on Annie Zito! a smart-but-not-always-wise divorced mother! and Marly! her strong yet vulnerable daughter! as they seek and stumble upon an odd cast of boys and men. All the stories are linked and alternate between mother and daughter; and while each tale stands alone! together they make up a larger whole.
