The Last Lovely City: Stories
Book Condition: Used
Publisher: Knopf, 1999-02-01 00:00:00.
ISBN: 0679454411
The book begins with nine stories whose settings range from San Francisco to a North Carolina college town to a run-down Mexican resort town. In "His Women", a college professor and his ex-wife play an extended game of let's-kiss-and-make-up, revealing the history of their flirtations and infidelities. In "The Islands", a woman mourns the loss of her cat more profoundly than the recent death of her husband. And in the title story, a view of San Francisco from a beach party brings an old doctor, known for his generosity, to the sudden realization that the glory, innocence, and passion the city once represented to him are now lost forever, as he faces the less than righteous way he has managed to accrue the money to support his good works. The four stories in part two take on the shape of a short novel, whose protagonist, Lila Lewisohn, a divorced psychiatrist, finds her private life beginning to fuse with the lives of her patients, their husbands, and their lovers. Binding: Hardcover dj in mylar (price unclipped); 192 pages PublishPlace: NY ISBN: 0-679-45441-1 Size: 8 vo
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