THE GRAYWOLF ANNUAL TWO: SHORT STORIES BY WOMEN EDITED BY SCOTT WALKER

This paperback is in good condition. It has some writing on inside front cover which I will strike through . It has has a creased (dog-eared) page. Published in 1986 by Graywolf Press 176 pages Thirteen superb stories by some of today's finest writers are presented in this second Greywolf Annal evoking the wide and varied range of contemporary women' experiences. In Susan Minor's story, "The Navigator," a young girl tells of her family's painful struggle against her father's alcoholism. Louise Erdrichs "The Beet Queen" portrays a woman's plight as a single parent, her sudden abandonment of her children for a stunt flyer, and the children's subsequent journey toward separate homes. "Blue Country" by Bobbie Ann Mason presents a woman who, while attending the wedding of an old friend, receives news of bey grandmother'$ long awaited death. Stories by Ann Beattie, Laurie Colwin, Elizabeth Tallent. Alice Adars and others survey the rich complexity and the frequent contradictions of contemporary life.