The Age of Grief (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jane Smiley
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Marriage, Midwest, Lesbianism or lesbians, Adultery, Problem solving
- Locales: Midwest (U.S.)
The collection of short fiction entitled The Age of Grief presents a wide array of adults battling for and against emotional commitment. These five stories examine family life through characters on the periphery of domesticity. Because the women protagonists in “Lily” and “The Pleasure of Her Company” admire a marital realm they observe only from a distance, both prove unprepared for the disappointments that ensue. Their limited insight into human relationships results, in part, from the absence of such entanglements in their own lives. Lily's emotional “virginity”...
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