Foreign Parts

From the beginning this novel's tension weaves warp and woof between hilarity and hell. Two women friends travel through France, encountering backroad-European misogynist crudities and the awkward experiences of being female, over thirty, with your teeth almost literally at your closest friend's throat, and "fancying men, but not liking them very much." Throughout Rona's random acts of innocent irritation and Cassie's caustic reactions, the funny and fumbled art of their compassion supersedes self-slaughter, stretches itself thin, but refuses to puncture, throughout years of pals together both on holiday and in troubled spirit.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 09/01/1995
ISBN: 9781564780829
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.57h x 5.59w x 0.81d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/24/1995 pg. 57
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/1995 pg. 969
Booklist 09/01/1995 pg. 41
Library Journal 10/15/1995 pg. 88
New York Times 10/01/1995 pg. 32