Nine Women (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Shirley Ann Grau
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction, Domestic realism, Character study
- Subjects: Freedom, Mothers, Parents and children, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Marriage, Lesbianism or lesbians, Women’s issues, Women, Divorce, Death or dying, Aging
Form and Content
Nine Women, Shirley Ann Grau’s first book after Evidence of Love (1977), is a collection of short stories featuring the lives of nine distinct women, most of whom live a detached and often superficial life. The stories are tightly crafted, with few characters and spare character description. Grau focuses on the way in which each woman copes with a crisis in her otherwise vacuous life and manages to create meaning from it.
“The Beginning,” the first story in the collection, features two African American women—Mother and her cherished...
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