{"product_id":"time-for-bed-stories-paperback","title":"Time for Bed: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWendy Rawlings\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael Griffith\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBed is where we sleep and dream, where we make love and give ourselves nightmares. The thirteen stories in Wendy Rawlings's \u003ci\u003eTime for Bed\u003c\/i\u003e traverse the complicated terrain of bedtime activity, from adulterous couplings to nightmares that come to life, in terms that can feel lurid, unsettling, or disturbingly funny. A college student struggles with her mother leaving her father for a \"cafeteria lady\" at her high school. A woman loses her only daughter in a mass school shooting and goes on a road trip to buy a custom coffin, then decides to take a side trip to NRA headquarters. A daughter decides she should be born again--literally. Social, cultural, and familial disruptions haunt these characters in their waking lives as they look to grab something or someone for stability. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A collection of comic stories that confront difficult and tragic events, \u003ci\u003eTime for Bed \u003c\/i\u003ecrafts dreamscapes and bizarre encounters into bedtime stories for adults.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wendy Rawlings' \u003ci\u003eTime for Bed\u003c\/i\u003e is snappy, hilarious, bracing reading. She's a master storyteller who's thought long and hard about the possibilities of the form. This is a long-overdue collection from one of my favorite writers.\"--Jess Row\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTime for Bed \u003c\/i\u003etook me to places I was scared to go and made me glad to be there. Whether Rawlings's stories involve the everyday or the outlandish, they come alive through the magic of deep and urgent emotion: \u003ci\u003estakes.\u003c\/i\u003e Women are front and center here: mothers with regrets, daughters with desires, loyal friends, sworn frenemies. \u003ci\u003eTime for Bed\u003c\/i\u003e's final story is one of the best about 9\/11 I've read.\" --Pamela Erens, author of \u003ci\u003eEleven Hours\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWendy Rawlings\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eCome Back Irish\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2000 Sandstone Prize for Short Fiction, and \u003ci\u003eThe Agnostics\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Michigan Literary Fiction Award. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eCincinnati Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCreative Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She teaches creative writing at the University of Alabama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8.5 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 21, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47228862267641,"sku":"9780807171516","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/NHpydG10dU1aSGZVMENZVDlsSGdnUT09.webp?v=1768296487","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/time-for-bed-stories-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}