Willow Temple

Willow Temple New & Selected Stories

Hardback (07 May 2003)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Willow Temple, combining six of the most "notable and moving stories" (Robert Taylor, Boston Globe) from the 1987 collection The Ideal Bakery with six new stories written in the years since, is Donald Hall's most important short fiction collection to date. "From Willow Temple" is the indelible story of a child's witness of her mother's adultery and of the earlier shocking loss that underlies it. The other stories, too, are reminiscent of Alice Munro and William Maxwell in their mastery of form, their deeply observed portrayals of the interior worlds of only children, and their ability to trace the emotional fault lines connecting generations. In three stories we see David Bardo at crucial junctures of his life, beginning as a child drawn to his parents' "cozy adult coven of drunks" and growing into a young man whose intense first affair undergirds a lifelong taste for the heady mix of ardor and betrayal. Hall's short stories give a "breathtakingly successful" (Chicago Tribune) account of the passionate weight of lives.

Book information

ISBN: 9780618329816
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Imprint: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 210
Weight: 381g
Height: 217mm
Width: 145mm
Spine width: 20mm