· "Jean Ryan's Survival Skills offers a wry look at the ways in which intimate relationships, ambitions, and desires are often foiled and skewed by the natural world." — Henriette Lazaridis Power, author of The Clover House5/5(1). "Jean Ryan's Survival Skills offers a wry look at the ways in which intimate relationships, ambitions, and desires are often foiled and skewed by the natural world. A greyhound who won't run, a goose who imprints on a newly divorced woman, a gossiping parrot, and even an amorous octopus—these are the creatures who intervene in the lives of Ryan's female protagonists. The title of Jean Ryan's collection of short stories, Survival Skills, describes the basic premise of how humans and all of nature, interact together to develop coping strategies for a variety of life challenges, which may be physical, emotional, or psychological/5(24).
Survival Skills (Paperback). ''This book will bring you closer to the things that are important in life.'' — Lori Ostlund, author of The Bigness of the. Thanks to Ashland Creek Press, I have an ebook copy of Jean Ryan's recently released short story collection Survival Skills to giveaway to one lucky reader. "Jean Ryan's Survival Skills offers a wry look at the ways in which intimate relationships, ambitions, and desires are often foiled and skewed by the natural world." - Henriette Lazaridis Power, author of The Clover House.
A Lambda Literary Award Finalist"Captivating "— Publishers Weekly"Jean Ryan brings to the short story what Mary Oliver does to poetry."— The Los Angeles Reviewquot;Survival Skills is a collection of understated, elegant narratives that throw a keen eye on the interconnectedness of humans with the natural world.quot;— Lambda Literaryquot;This book will bring you closer to the things. Survival Skills is a collection of understated, elegant narratives that throw a keen eye on the interconnectedness of humans with the natural world. Jean Ryan holds a magnifying glass to those unexpected moments in which transformation occurs, and the quiet power of these stories will remain with you well after the final page is turned. publication of Jean Ryan’s dynamic short story collection, SURVIVAL SKILLS. The characters who inhabit Jean Ryan’s graceful, imaginative collection of stories are survivors of accidents and acts of nature, of injuries both physical and emotional. Ryan writes of beauty and aging, of love won and lost—with characters enveloped in.
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