Mary Faith Rapple wonders when her lover will stop making promise he can't keep-and leave his wife at last. But Mary Faith isn't the only woman in town with man troubles, for everyone has someone they want, someone they can't have, and someone they want to forget. Sayers has a gift for voice and the honest, gritty commentary about human behaviour. This book offers her own version of the humour that Southern writers from Eudora Welty to Flannery O'Connor to Reynolds Price use so tellingly. Sayers' novel is a skilful and well-crafted book which should appeal to readers of intelligent fiction.

About the Author
Valerie Sayers was born and raised in Beaufort, South Carolina, USA which became the thinly disguised Due East of her fiction, and educated in New York, where she lived for many years. She is the author of six novels, including The Powers, her most recent. Her literary awards include a Pushcart Prize for fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship. A professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, USA where her students keep her hopping, she publishes stories, essays, and reviews widely.


Book Information
ISBN 9780810127258
Author Valerie Sayers
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Northwestern University Press
Publisher Northwestern University Press
Weight(grams) 455g
Dimensions(mm) 227mm * 155mm * 19mm