Going Away Shoes
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The foibles of the people in Jill McCorkleâs world are so familiar that we want nothing so much as to watch them walk intoâand then get out ofâlifeâs inevitable traps. Here, in her first collection in eight years, McCorkle collects eleven brand-new stories bristling with her characteristic combination of wit and weight.
In honeymoon shoes, mud-covered hunting boots, or glass slippers, all of the women in these stories march to a place of new awareness, in one way or another, transforming their lives. They make mistakes, but they donât waste time hiding behind them. They move on. They are strong. And theyâre funny, even when they are sad.
These stories are the work of a great storyteller who knows exactly howâand whyâto pair pain with laughter.
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Jill McCorkle published her first two novels on the same day in 1984. Â Of these novels, the New York Times Book Review said: "one suspects the author of The Cheer Leader is a born novelist. Â With July 7th, she is also a full grown one." Since then she has published five other novelsâmost recently, Hieroglyphics-- and four collections of short stories. Five of her books have been named New York Times notable books and four of her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories. Â McCorkle has received the New England Booksellers Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, the North Carolina Award for Literature and the Thomas Wolfe Prize; she was recently inducted into the NC Literary Hall of Fame. McCorkle has taught at Harvard, Brandeis and NC State where she remains affiliated with the MFA Program in creative writing and she is core faculty in the Bennington Writing Seminars.
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