Water Liars (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Barry Hannah
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1970's
- Setting: Farte Cove in west central Mississippi
- Principal Characters: The husband, The “water liars,”, A fisherman
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, Husbands, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Wives, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Virginity or virgins, Storytelling, Mississippi, Rivers or waterways, Truthfulness and falsehood
- Locales: Mississippi
The Story
“Water Liars” is told in first person by an unnamed married man who recalls his reaction the previous year when he learned that his wife had had sex with other men before their marriage. As the story begins, he is still trying to determine why he was, and apparently still is, unable to handle that knowledge. He realizes his tendency to constantly relive every “passionate event” and finds himself driven wild by thinking about his wife's former lovers even though he acknowledges that her sexual history is no different from his.
On the morning following...
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