How to Accommodate Men

By Marilyn Krysl

Book Overview

From Denver to Sri Lanka, Eden to the 21st century, Krysl's stories explore female experience and imagination.

Marilyn Krysl's stories are distinguished by a sardonic knowledge of the world as it is, and a haunting awareness of the world as it could be. In glittering prose, Krysl explores divisions between lovers, friends, and countrymen and finds new ways to reestablish those broken connections. Sometimes dreamlike and archetypal, other times topical and ironic, the stories in How to Accommodate Men mourn the fragmentation of our modern world and celebrate the compassionate gestures that offer hope.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566890764
• ISBN13: 9781566890762
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

an absolutely riveting collection!

i have always loved krysl's short stories -- and hope her other collections become available again -- but with this book, she's hit her stride. she tells it like it is...and in such beautiful language! let's have MORE from this author, who outdoes most short-story writers publishing in the larger mainstream.

Unfortunate cover and title; finely crafted stories within.

This is one book that cannot be judged by its title and cover. These strongly focused and insightful stories are both penetrating and lyrical -- revealing emotional landscapes of men and women people dealing with important issues. Some stories reflect the disquiet of interpersonal relationships; others deal with the harsh realities of lives interconnected in a global context. I attended a reading where Ms. Krysl read one story, about a man coming to terms with his role in the social injustices of his business dealings in a third world country. The audience was stunned. Instead of a cover of hazy red and gray, with an atom bomb explosion at the top and a reclining bikini-clad woman on the bottom, this book deserved a title and cover representative of the fine quality of the stories within it. This is a book to read, contemplate, and then re-read.