Praise for Sallie Bingham:
Sallie Bingham binds her collection together with sheer talent. The
title novella is absolutely first-rate--a skillfully suggestive amalgam
of Katherine Mansfield and Eudora Welty. This same unblinking gaze is
hard at work on the essential weakness and dependence of men ('The Banks
of the Ohio' and 'The Ice Party'), the illusion of freedom that comes
with divorce ('Bare Bones'), and the desperate terror of adolescent love
('Winter Term').--James R. Frakes, The New York Times Book Review
Sallie Bingham's characters scrutinize their relationships with
children, lovers, and their own treacherous souls. . . . Nearly every
one of these flinty stories is a tiny masterpiece.--Entertainment
Weekly
Hardened but not compromised by adult life, these luminous stories . . .
feature narrators who find mature, often solitary forms of reckoning,
and even happiness. . . . There is not a false note in Bingham's
striking collection.--Publishers Weekly, starred review
These engaging tales span landscape, gender, and age, and readers will
treasure Bingham's strikingly perceptive composition and refined, clever
flashes of detail and clarity.--Booklist
Sallie Bingham published her first novel with Houghton Mifflin in
1961. Since then she has published four collections of short stories,
four novels, and a memoir. She was book editor for The Courier-Journal
in Louisville, Kentucky, and has been a director of the National Book
Critics Circle. She is the founder of The Kentucky Foundation for Women.
