Creatures of Habit by Jill McCorkle (2003, Paperback) 
Creatures of Habit by Jill McCorkle (2003, Paperback)

 
Creatures of Habit by Jill McCorkle (2003, Paperback)

Publisher: Algonquin Books
Publication Date: 2003-03-28
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1565123972
ISBN-13: 9781565123977
Product ID: EPID2447956
Description: McCorkle's 12 interlocking stories are about the similarities and interactions between humans and animals. They include "Billy Goats," "Snipe," "Toads," and "Starlings," as well as good old "Cats" and "Dogs."
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Synopsis
McCorkle's 12 interlocking stories are about the similarities and interactions between humans and animals. They include "Billy Goats," "Snipe," "Toads," and "Starlings," as well as good old "Cats" and "Dogs."

Details
Publication Date:2003-03-28

Size
Length:240 pages
Height:7.0 in
Width:5.0 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:8.0 oz

Publisher's Note
A collection of short stories, including "Monkeys," in which a widow holds on to her husband's beloved spider monkey as well as his darkest secrets, takes readers back to the author's fictional hometown of Fulton, North Carolina.

Industry Reviews
"[A]mbitious but frustratingly uneven....[T]he stories divide into two distinct types: those in which smart-alecky female narrators make mincemeat of men (and a few women) whose sins hardly seem inhuman, and those in which the narrators drop their pose of superiority to give us kinder, keener and ultimately more interesting takes on what makes people tick....We can only hope that next time out, McCorkle will go easier on the irony and cynicism and pursue...quiet, open-minded watchfulness, which is so clearly her strong suit."
New York Times Book Review - Louisa Kamps (10/28/2001)

"CREATURES OF HABIT, Jill McCorkle's third collection of stories, is what coming home should be but so seldom is--comforting, clarifying and irresistible. This is not to say these are happy stories. McCorkle's fictional home place, specifically Fulton, N.C., is populated with the requisite Southern grotesques. But these grotesques, despite their Southern inflections, hail straight from the heart of Winesburg, Ohio, rather than Flannery O'Connor country....CREATURES OF HABIT is a small and compact text--tactilely as pleasurable as it is readable....I guarantee that these 12 near-perfect renderings of small-town life will sabotage your best efforts to pace yourself. Bet you can't read just one."
Washington Post Book World - Dawn Trouard (11/11/2001)

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