Tenney's Landing: Stories

By Catherine Tudish

Book Overview

The lives and histories of the denizens of Tenney's Landing, a small Pennsylvania river town, intersect in ways both incidental and intimate as the townspeople learn that their capacity for hope and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743267672
• ISBN13: 9780743267670
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Scribner
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

you will love these characters!

What a well written book! I loved the character development and how the stories intertwined to paint a picture of Tenney's Landing. Definitely worth reading!!!

You'll Love These Stories!

Don't be lulled by the deceptively quiet tone of these stories--just like the village of Tenney's Landing itself, there's more going on here than meets the eye. These sly stories sneak up on you and, when you least expect it, deliver a wicked wallop. There's no place like a small town to study the human condition in all of its aspects, and Tudish's stories have proven her to be a keen and sympathetic student. Enjoy!

A brilliant debut

If you enjoy the prose of Anne Tyler, Marilynne Robinson, Margot Livesey, or Hester Kaplan, you'll treasure every moment you spend with this debut collection. Those who have revisited the small town of their youth, if only in fantasies or dreams, will feel a shock of recognition from the tense wires of ambivalence that interconnect these stories. Catherine Tudish leaves her readers with a sense of longing--for a deeper understanding of their own "Tenney's Landing," and also for her next literary work.

A heartwarming beauty of a short story collection.

Tenney's Landing This book is a rare find. I fell under the spell of Catherine Tudish's stories, and I'm so confident that others will, too, that I have already given copies to five friends. A book like this gives one hope that the world-for all its ability to inflict pain and loss-can still be sweet and tender enough to give us delight and joy.

A Literary Find

I love this book. It's a collection of stories, each one satisfying on its own, but it almost reads like a novel. Memorable characters, fascinating situations, and fine prose. I'd recommend Tenney's Landing to anyone who looks to fiction for an unjaded look at the human condition.