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Her Work Stories by Texas Women edited by Lou Halsell Rodenberger |
These stories run the gamut of human relationships, the colorful panorama of Texas settings, and a bountiful catalog of unique characters are evaluated and interpreted by women who each has her own special connection with the state and her own private ringside seat for viewing the tragicomedy we call human experience.
Strongest imprint of setting is found in those stories in which place affects attitudes—Patricia Griffith, Jane Gilmore Rushing, Elithe Hamilton Kirkland, Melba Christopher, Harryette Mullen, Winifred Sanford.
Feisty women challenge traditional attitudes in stories by Norma Patterson and Ruth Brodsky.
Four stories reflect masculine points of view: Mary Gray Hughes, Estela Portilla Trambley, Annette Sanford, Pamela Walker.
The sensibilities of children uncover the contraditions of life in stories by Ann M. Sparks, Betty S. Flowers, Ramona Weeks, Anne Pence Davis.
The gap in understanding between grandparent and grandchild is explored in the stories of Ellen Garwood, and Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey.
The tenuous nature of ties between men and women is the theme of stories by Babette Fraser, Pat Carr, Elizabeth Moore, Elizabeth McBride, Pat Ellis Taylor, Beverly Lowry, Jo Bran.
The ambivalence of family relationships engage the imaginations of Kathryn Marshall, Jacqueline Simon, Laura Furman, Charlotte Baker Montgomery.
Contemporary preoccupations of women are subjects for Shelby Hearon, Carolyn Osborn.
—from the Introduction by Lou Halsell Rodenberger
Her Work
+ ISBN 1-57441-132-2 paper $23.95s
6X9. 352 pp.
Publication Date: 2000.
