Sea Lovers: Selected Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307739551)

Twelve extraordinary short stories from the award-winning, bestselling author of Property that explore human morality and our shared losses and joys, shifting from realism to myth, from the Louisiana bayou to the streets of Rome and beyond. - "Complex and wonderful.... A long, cool drink of water." --The New York Times Book Review

In these stories, Martin mines her three literary preoccupations--animals, artists, and metamorphoses--to unforgettable effect. In "The Consolation of Nature," a family battles a giant rat that has invaded their home. "The Open Door" follows an American poet in Rome, forced to choose between her lover and a world so new it takes her breath away. In "Et in Academic Ego," a seventeen-year-old bayou orphan falls in love with a centaur who transforms her life. And the title story conjures up a hideous mermaid who fatally seduces a fisherman. Sophisticated, incisive, deeply felt and always surprising, Sea Lovers showcases the enduring work of an indispensable writer.

Author: Valerie Martin
ISBN-10: 0307739554
ISBN-13: 9780307739551
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 08/23/2016
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d