The Peaceable Kingdom: Stories
Files
Document Type
Book
Description
The inhabitants of Prose's peaceable kingdom are getting the surprises of their lives. The things they thought they'd wanted - marriage and children, travel, work - even the compromises they imagined they'd made, no longer sustain them. A young woman on her Italian honeymoon suddenly realizes that her high-minded ecologist husband will have to save the world without her. A child on a class trip recognizes in the friezes of an Egyptian tomb the inevitable, tragic procession of her life to come. A teenager has a rude awakening when she is pursued to Paris by the boy of her dreams. Nothing is dependable in this world where weddings and birthday parties go unpredictably, awry, strangers blurt out disturbing confessions, and even the family pets reveal themselves to be agents of discord and disruption - and where the seemingly tranquil surface of ordinary happiness barely conceals the darker, more mysterious and brutal truth about this deceptively peaceable kingdom.
Publication Date
1993
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City
New York
State
NY
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | Fiction | History
Repository Citation
Prose , F. (1993). The Peaceable Kingdom: Stories. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
