Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night

Stories

Thisbe Nissen

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English

Random House USA Inc
15 January 2001

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

In Thisbe Nissen's award-winning debut story collection, characters teeter on the verge of love, of life, of oncoming cataclysms after which Things Will Never Be the Same. Against the varied backdrops of Grateful Dead shows, anniversary parties, sickrooms, and bright Manhattan vestibules, Nissen traces the joy, terror, and electric surprise that flash between people as they suddenly connect.

A fifteen-year-old girl whose mother is slowly dying finds solace in the bed of her best friend's older brother.

A wife remembers the early romance in her marriage as she watches her husband's hand, shaky with Parkinson's, lift a bite of food to his mouth. Longtime friends are jolted by their unforeseen attraction to each other; new lovers feel their way by instinct in vans, on futons, an during risky, late-night conversation.

Knowing, often hilarious, and always pitch-perfect, Nissen's tales hang inside those moments when the heart is acting and the head is watching, hopeful that the heart is doing the right thing.

By: Thisbe Nissen
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 213g
ISBN: 9780385720533
ISBN 10: 038572053X
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 15 January 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Thisbe Nissen is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a former James Michener Fellow. Her stories have appeared in Story and Seventeen. A native New Yorker, she now lives in Iowa.

Reviews for Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night: Stories

[An] awe-inspiring collection of stories. Nissen's characters are young and yearning, and they come together in lovely and unexpected ways. -- The Austin Chronicle <br> These are requiems for youth. . . . Nissen has a rare, poetic way with the short-story form. -- The Hartford Courant