No Diving Allowed by Louise Marburg
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Overview: From F. Scott Fitzgerald to John Cheever, the swimming pool has long held a unique place in the mythos of the American idyll, by turns status symbol and respite. The fourteen stories that comprise NO DIVING ALLOWED fearlessly plunge the depths of the human condition as award-winning author Louise Marburg freights her narratives with the often unfathomable pressure of what lies beneath. In “Identical,” sibling rivalry between brothers exposes lingering resentments of men who never made peace with boyhood animosities; “Let Me Stay With You” follows a man whose innocent attention to a child is gravely misunderstood. The trials of a fractured family come to the fore in the trenchant, unapologetic “Minor Thefts.” Siblings, friends, parents, couples, children: the characters in these stories ask how much any of us can bear before we break. Marburg’s writing is agile, witty, and crisply spare. These are tales of regret and mercy, of bonds forged and frayed, and most of all our individual capacity to love even that which damns us. As readers of these pages will learn, the difference between swimming and drowning is often nothing more than the will to live.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
Includes:
- Identical
Wildebeest
Creamer’s House
No Diving Allowed
The Bottom of the Deep End
Minor Thefts
Day Three
Attractive Nuisance
Dulaney Girls
Let Me Stay with You
Pulling Toward Meanness
Play Nice, Be Good
All Pies Look Delicious
Talk to Me
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