If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black

If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black

Robin Black creates worlds within worlds. Her stories turn on a glance or a phrase – or, more often, on that which is not expressed. If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This explores life’s rich silences: in relationships both acknowledged and covert, and in the unspoken, often treacherous dynamics of families in which so much goes unsaid. A mother, retired to the countryside with her elderly husband, plays sensitive host to her daughter and her secret lover even while she mourns the embers of her own relationship. A blind teenager sees the fractures in her parents’ marriage more clearly than they can themselves. These stories are luminous, wise and unerringly humane, and their emotional generosity is all the more moving for Black's restrained and accomplished style. This is an extraordinarily poised debut collection from one of America’s brightest new voices. `Robin Black knows people. She knows us, she loves us, she takes pity on us and she offers us back to ourselves in clear-eyed and graceful prose’ Amy Bloom `She creates that special kind of literary magic, where a reader experiences everything, right alongside, and it all feels new’ Hannah Tinti `This collection of short stories might more accurately be called a collection of short novels, such is their richness of characterization and plot’ Elizabeth Berg `Like bulletins from the front, these magnificent stories shine a light on what it means to be human’ Dani Shapiro `Few first collections – few collections of any sort – are as intelligent and as moving about both the durability of love and the implacability of loss’ Jim Shepard

Robin Black is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collection If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, a finalist for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Prize and the novel Life Drawing. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including O, The Oprah Magazine and the New York Times Magazine. A recipient of fellowships from the Leeway Foundation and the MacDowell Colony, Black was the 2012 Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bryn Mawr College and has taught most recently in the Brooklyn College MFA Program. She lives with her family in Philadelphia. robinblack.net @Robin_Black

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ISBN 13	9780330520355
ISBN 10	0330520350
Title	If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
Author	Robin Black
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2010-06-04
Number of pages	288
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