Publication

2016 - Counterpoint, California

Language

English

Word Count

61,250 words, Guess

Page Count

245 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781619026186
  • Open LibraryOL27199014M

Classifications

  • DDC813/.6
  • LCCPS3620.R84 A6 2016
  • LCCPS3620.R84A6 2016

Description

Each of the fifteen stories asks two defining questions: What kind of love story is this? as well as, Who here is exactly what kind of criminal? In "His Rank," an armed man enters a bar to claim the girl he understands to be his destiny only to be told she has, the weekend before, married someone else. In "Skylab," in which lovers have run away together to work medical relief in Malaysia, the young woman is reading the Koran to learn what it says about adulterers even as she waits for satellite debris to rain down on her. She'll be punished, won't she, for the crime of happiness? And in "The Bride of the Black Duck" a new widow falls in love with an entire complicated family in her neighborhood, with whom she's suddenly, irrevocably plighted her troth: she is theirs, just as they are hers. In Criminals the stories are linked by theme, the characters often tender, movingly, but flawed.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Criminals: love storiesCounterpoint2016-01-01

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