Ebook {Epub PDF} Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money by Rebecca Curtis

9 rows ·  · Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money: Author: Rebecca Curtis: Publisher: 3/5(3).  · I was reminded of this conversation while reading Rebecca Curtis’s debut story collection, “Twenty Grand.” Curtis’s stories, almost all of them first published in The New Yorker and other Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.  · Read in app. By Rebecca Curtis. J. The stars were beginning above the lake, and the boats with their tiny pilot lights were entering the bay through the channel to dock for the night Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.

Rebecca Curtis received a B.A. from Pomona College, an M.A. in English from New York University, and an M.F.A from Syracuse University. Her first book, Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love Money (Harpercollins ) was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, an L.A. Times Best Book of the Year, and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. I first encountered Rebecca Curtis through her stories in New Yorker, "The Alpine Slide" and "Twenty Grand," coincidentally two of the strongest pieces in this collection. Other standout stories include "Summer, with Twins" and "Hungry Self". Rebecca Curtis, "Twenty Grand" Leave a reply. Mom loses the old Armenian coin her mom gave her. (from Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money) Our driveway was a dirt road that wound through a field. It was often lined by eight-foot banks—which I climbed on my way home from school—with teetering, sand-specked bucket-lumps at their.

Rebecca Curtis's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, including its debut fiction issue, as well as in Harper's, McSweeney's, and n+www.doorway.ru is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and her work has been selected for The O. Henry Prize Stories. Rebecca Curtis. Average rating: · 1, ratings · reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors. Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money. avg rating — ratings — published — 10 editions. Want to Read. saving. Want to Read. Currently Reading. Read. The collection is subtitled "and other tales of Love and Money," and Twenty Grand has both, and it's about losing both. And it's not about only romantic love, but familial, and struggling when both love and money are in short supply.