Red Car

Red Car Synopsis

A dozen ';vibrant . . . strikingly perceptive' stories about loveromantic, familial, comedic, and tragic, by the celebrated novelist and playwright (Booklist). Crossing a range of landscapes and eras, spanning age and gender, and circling taboos with a sly wit, ';these 12 luminous stories . . . feature narrators who find mature, often solitary forms of reckoning, and even happiness. There is not a false note in Bingham's striking collection' (Publishers Weekly). In ';A Gift for Burning' a woman regrets wasting all her energy on getting married, getting unmarried, and getting married again; ';That Winter' introduces us to a woman writer in a Colorado cabin, isolated by the brutal weather, and liberated by a mysterious guest; in ';Sagesse,' an American family gets a startling awakening while vacationing on the beaches of Normandy after World War II; the fearsome and tiring demands of matrimony are exposed in ';Porn'; ';Sweet Peas' exquisitely seizes on one single precious moment that destroys a couple's budding romance; and in the title story, the eponymous ';65 Pontiac comes to symbolize the inevitable end of a marriage. Praised for her ';skillfully suggestive amalgam of Katherine Mansfield and Eudora Welty . . . and their ';unblinking gaze', Red Car is Sallie Bingham at her masterful best (The New York Times Book Review).

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