“In these 35 stories, one struggles to find a sentence that is anything less than jewel-box perfect.” ―The New York Times Book Review Gina Berriault is known for the complexity and compassion with which she weaves her characters, and her stories are such models of economy that they seem almost telepathic. In this reissue of her collected stories―twenty years after its first publication―with a new introduction by renowned author and devoted Berriault advocate Peter Orner―we see the deft hand of this well-loved master of the short story at its best. Berriault employs her vital sensibility―sometimes subtly ironic and sometimes achingly raw―to touch on the inevitability of suffering and the nature of individuality, daring to see into the essence of our predicaments. What moves us? What dictates our behavior? What alters us? Her writing is spare, evanescent, pulsing with life and shimmering with life's strange hope. Her stories illustrate the depth of her emotional understanding.

ISBN: 9781887178389