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Darling?
In this smart and original story collection, Heidi Jon Schmidt paints her subjects with delicate care. What emerges are characters that are both flawed and also absolutely lovable—flighty women married to unbearably academic men, a diligent psychotherapy patient obsessed with her middle-aged allergic therapist, a gaggle of would-be writers too concerned with marketing strategy to put words on paper. Sparkling with keen wit and sharp insight, this funny and observant story collection marks the return of an extremely gifted writer.
304 pages, Paperback
First published September 8, 2001
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About the author
Heidi Jon Schmidt
8 books25 followersHEIDI JON SCHMIDT is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and author of five books, THE HARBORMASTER'S DAUGHTER,THE HOUSE ON OYSTER CREEK, THE BRIDE OF CATASTROPHE, DARLING? and THE ROSE THIEVES
Her essays and stories have been published in The New York Times,The Atlantic, Grand Street, Yankee, The Boston Globe etc., and heard on National Public Radio. Her stories have been included in The O'Henry Awards, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Twenty under Thirty and others.
She is married to the writer RD Skillings, and has lived in Provincetown Massachusetts for 30 years.
The Washington Post Book World has said "It is impossible to disentangle the comic from the tragic in Schmidt's writing. She is incapable of cliche."
Goodreads is telling me my influence list is too long (and I was being very minimalist!) so I will put it here instead! George Eliot, John Cheever, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Philip Roth, Oscar Wilde, Veronica Geng, Alice Munro, Katharine Mansfield, John Steinbeck
Her essays and stories have been published in The New York Times,The Atlantic, Grand Street, Yankee, The Boston Globe etc., and heard on National Public Radio. Her stories have been included in The O'Henry Awards, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Twenty under Thirty and others.
She is married to the writer RD Skillings, and has lived in Provincetown Massachusetts for 30 years.
The Washington Post Book World has said "It is impossible to disentangle the comic from the tragic in Schmidt's writing. She is incapable of cliche."
Goodreads is telling me my influence list is too long (and I was being very minimalist!) so I will put it here instead! George Eliot, John Cheever, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Philip Roth, Oscar Wilde, Veronica Geng, Alice Munro, Katharine Mansfield, John Steinbeck
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