Boys Keep Being Born

by Joan Frank

Book Overview

"Lately, time seems to have taken on an amusing eternal quality. Outer-space time, quick-and-never; a slow wheeling of which Melinda, moving at whatever speed, is more and more aware she has been... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826213553
• ISBN13: 9780826213556
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Lyrical and wise

I tend to read story collections in bits and pieces, but I couldn't put this one down. I read it as though it were going to save my life. It's that good--lyrical and funny and wise.

Gets to the heart of things

Writing that makes you stop every so often to sigh or to marvel -- stories that are always surprising. You know what the characters ought to do, you know what they want to do, but you don't know what they're going to do. You may think these are only stories about particular women trying to find their place in life, but as in the stories of Raymond Carver, you immediately care about these people, even when they're not "your kind" of people. Easy reading, fun reading, but most of all good reading.

on the contrary

I like boys as much as the next woman, and I found nothing bilious or bitter about this story collection. In fact, I was impressed by the author's ability to write wittily without veering into meanness. Although Ms. Frank writes coolly about her characters' predicaments, she clearly feels rueful affection for them. This is a good book.