Some of Her Friends That Year: New & Selected Stories

By Maxine Chernoff

Book Overview

Maxine Chernoff's spry, well-crafted stories illuminate the funny and disquieting subtleties of urban couples and families.

Highly regarded for her deft and humorous portrayals of the dark side of modern living, Maxine Chernoff's latest collection is a droll, poetic field guide to the amusing, baffling, and endearing behavioral patterns of the urban human being. Chernoff fans will relish the new stories, and new readers will discover a wonderful assemblage of Chernoff's likeable, unaffected, and contemplative characters. With the precision of a poet and the astuteness of a sociologist, Chernoff continues to establish herself as a master of the short story genre with this excellent collection.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566891272
• ISBN13: 9781566891271
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

About the quirks and dark sides to human behavior

An editor for the literary journal "New American Writing" and Chair of the Creative Writing Department, San Francisco State University, Maxine Chernoff writes short stories with a polish and candor that most other aspiring writers can only hope for. Some Of Her Friends That Year is an original anthology of fifteen unique stories by Chernoff about the quirks and dark sides to human behavior. From "We Kill What We Love" and "Rent-A-Pet", to "You Suck" and "Jewish Urban White Trash Story", Chernoff's tales are gut-twisting intense and do not shy away or beat around the bush in delivering devastating black humor, avant-garde wit, and an abyss of negative sympathy for the nasty demon within us all. An entrancing read; each these coiling tales is resists being put down until the very end.