"Beautiful Soon Enough"
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Synopsis:
Margo Berdeshevsky's Beautiful Soon Enough is a collection of hypnotic stories that capture the lives--worldly, sexual, obsessive--of twenty-three arresting women.
These are snapshots and collages: stories of women on the outside, looking in; of women content to end their affairs; of young women learning the power of seduction; and of older women reminiscing about past loves. They are women who cannot live without love's embrace, and women who have found it and feel that it is never enough. They are women of a "certain age," as the French might say, and women with naked hearts, of any age.
Berdeshevsky's tales cross the planet: from beds in Paris to the roofs of Havana, from Venice Beach to the hills of Dubrovnik. With settings as varied as the characters they depict, these tales illuminate the lives of women desperate for a balance between love, comfort, and freedom. Personal, driven, and lyrical, together they are Beautiful Soon Enough.
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Topics/Categories:
Arts & Photography, Beauty, collage, desperation, emotional power, eros, fable, FC2, fiction, Forgiveness, Freedom, Literary Fiction, Love lyricism, Men, Paris, Passion, post-modern, Seduction, short-stories, Travel, Venice Beach, Women, yearning
Genre:
American Fiction, American Short Stories, Arts, Contemporary Fiction, Drama, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Photography, Postmodernism, Travel, Women's Studies - Interest
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Awards:
FC2's American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize
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University of Alabama Press
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Publishing Notes:
"Margo Berdeshevsky understands the diabolical complexity of the human heart, and how eros is a form of intelligence as well as a drive. Writing with lyric accuracy and necessary forgiveness about the turmoils of love, she also declares the 8th Deadly Sin: the refusal of intense experience." --SVEN BIRKERTS-- "Margo Berdeshevsky's Beautiful Soon Enough is a thrillingly cutting-edge work of photos and short short stories flowing together into an extended erotic dream that limns the inner lives of women deeply yearning for connection and authenticity. This is a splendid book by a fine poet turning into an equally fine fiction writer."--ROBERT OLEN BUTLER-- "Margo Berdeshevsky is a mature poet and world citizen whose ever-lively sense of wonder both at the world and at language is a constant in her work. This is writing with emotional power, great beauty and immediacy, found in the here-and-now, woven with extraordinary awareness of what is precisely not beautiful in human life. So MUCH verbal beauty, with the eternal quality of the tale or fable." --MARILYN HACKER--
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