![]() ![]() But it's mostly the act itself that brings relief, the self-forgetfulness, the diving and plunging into other lives." One could do worse in terms of an explanation of the appeal of fiction, yet too few of these stories offer that sense of depth, skating instead on the surfaces of the lives they depict. ![]() In the opening story, "Complainers," about the lengthy friendship of two elderly women named Cathy and Della, he writes of Della's experience of reading: "Since her last reading, she's forgotten enough of the book that the story seems new again, yet familiar. This collection contains flashes of what makes his longer work a pleasure to read - fraught situations, keenly observed behaviors, and senses of complicated humor and empathy - but on the whole, it feels uneven. ![]() Peter Luce, the sexologist from "Middlesex" and the aforementioned "Air Mail," whose protagonist, Mitchell, also appears in "The Marriage Plot." Each story includes the year it was written at the end, instructively calling attention to the development of Eugenides' approaches and themes across the decades. A couple of the 10 pieces here contain crossover characters from his longer works, notably "The Oracular Vulva," which features Dr. ![]()
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