Missing Women & Others

by Jane Spence and June Spence

Book Overview

Selected by E. Annie Proulx for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of 1997, and winner of the Willa Cather Award, June Spence is one of the most original new voices in fiction today. In her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573227374
• ISBN13: 9781573227377
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A Better Reading / Rating

Missing Women certainly deserves to be better read and "read better" than the reviewer from Portland allows or is able.Consequently, I'll offer 5-stars to compensate.A close read of these stories...separately and collectively...is well worth the time. I'd compare the tone... confident, observant writing matched with unvarnished insight...to that of Mary Robison (who should be in print)and the point of view...rigorous honesty and perspective...to Lisa Zeidner in Layover. The content and the mood of the stories is memorable in the way that observing life from a "writerly" perspective is memorable...there's drama/melodrama/tragedy/comedy (sometimes simultaneously) in the ordinary (such as one finds in Christopher Tilghman & Tim Gautreaux) as well as in the extravagant. The collection was aptly titled (MW and Others) and sequenced to offer the reader the reward of discrete readings of the stories, as well as the reward of experiencing their overall impact. High marks to June Spence. I eagerly anticipate future work.

I was there, in their heads.

The women in this book are as good as real. I have loved them, helped them, pitied them, and have just been baffled by them. Wonderful people you will never know if you do not by the book.