Snapshots: 20th Century Mother-Daughter Fiction

by Janet Berliner, Joyce Carol Oates, Cleo Qian

Book Overview

The stories in this volume are literary snapshots from Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Mary Gordon, Jamaica Kincaid, Gloria Naylor, Alice Walker, and Joyce Carol Oates, among others. All seventeen stories deal with a single, central, and vital theme: the relationship of mothers to daughters and daughters to mothers, and it is the interplay of this dynamic that provides the focus of these wonderfully felt and beautifully told stories. The permutations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567921728
• ISBN13: 9781567921724
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 9.0"