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Contents
The party -- Miss Amelia's -- Sunday morning -- Progress report-Candelaria project -- The Peeping Tom -- Mermaids singing -- Exiles -- Pascuas Caleñas -- Indian burial -- The cake-eaters -- Bullfight -- Wrought iron lace -- A visit from the consul -- October afternoon conference -- Mrs. Jessie Martha Jones -- An evening's seduction -- The witch of Peach Tree Street -- Rite of passage -- Andrew's mistress -- Incident at Finnegans wake
Abstract
Pat Carr's first collection of stories is a gallery of finely-drawn psychological portraits gathered from worlds as far apart as a small-town Southern childhood and a Peace Corps mission in the jungles of South America. Whether she is depicting a brutal native initiation rite or the small, desperate ironies of a young girl's birthday party, a thread of shared humanity runs throughout. Like the woman who reads cards in "The Witch of Peach Tree Street," Carr displays the fates of her characters in brief illuminating moments. Not just the reflections of a central shaping intelligence, these are women of common circumstances brought to life with uncommon talent.
Series Title
Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction
Award Date
1977
Judge
Michaels, Leonard
Publication Date
1977
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
City
Iowa City
Total Pages
141
ISBN of Print Version
9780877450818
Rights
Copyright © 1977 by The University of Iowa. All rights reserved.
Recommended Citation
Carr, Pat M.. The Women in the Mirror. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1977.
https://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_isfa/45