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`Female Trouble _ Stories' by Antonya Nelson.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Antonya Nelson commandeers an aphorism from the wryly perceptive Oscar Wilde to signal the author's ambitious agenda in "Female Trouble _ Stories," her new collection.
"Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself" is Wilde's concise reading of the self-laceration that can often accompany a woman's quest for self-discovery. In most of Nelson's tales, restlessly energetic women bravely set out to broaden their horizons, often in pursuits that risk turning on them.
Nearly all of Nelson's 13 stories are satisfying because she is able to limn from the banality of domestic comfort insistent little truths that linger like incense. First ...
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