'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.“Long and short stories from one of our most distinctive prose stylists,” the author of the National Book Award finalist, Florida: A Novel ( New York, “The Best Books of the Year So Far”). When she thought he might come to the front door, Mimi took off her mules and crept through the house up the floating staircase to what she had made into her bedroom where she hid between the bed and the wall. His expression was hard to make out, but she watched him wrestle the hose into a terra cotta pot the hose must have weighed more than he did, poor man. I wish you’d pick up,” she said, then blipped off hurt to think he hadn’t even answered a call with her name She fixed herself more of the same and lowered the blinds in the kitchen and in the dining room to spy on the gardener as he moved around the house. She didn’t like to be alone in the house. The Eames chair―her husband's―startled her: where had it been that she had not seen it? Then her lawyer, good on his word, called, and she learned what she already knew: nothing was hers.īriefly sober, she called Stetson’s cell to say she wasn’t going to drink anymore and she wished he would come back. Mimi, with her eyes stung from the smoke or crying or both, drew the drapes and turned on a downstairs light, a small flame in the gloom of the mostly bare and sunken living room. The late afternoon sky he saw was the same Mimi saw leeched of all its color. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Timeless, incisive, and precise, these tales are a rush of blood to the head, portals through which we open our eyes and see the world anew.

With Pure Hollywood Christine Schutt gives us sharply suspenseful and masterfully dark interior portraits of ordinary lives, infused with her signature observation and surprise. From an alcoholic widowed actress living in desert seclusion to a young mother whose rejection of her child has terrible consequences, from a newlywed couple who ignore the violent warnings of a painter burned by love to an eerie portrait of erotic obsession, each story is an imagistic snapshot of what it means to live and learn, love and hurt. In one eponymous novella and ten stories, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. The sensational new story collection from one of our sharpest, most original, and daringly cinematic stylists, National Book Award finalist and O Henry Prize winner Christine Schutt. “ Pure Hollywood is pure gold.”―Ottessa Moshfegh

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