Lust and Other Stories

The author of Monkeys and Evening focuses her observant eye and lyrical voice on the delicate emotional negotiations of young New Yorkers. As in a series of deceptively simple watercolors, these stories uncover small moments that yield larger truths—about the ways in which women and men come together and come apart again, about the disappointments and hopes of lovers who know what they want but don’t always know how to keep. A deeply poignant meditation on the nature of desire and loss.

©1989 by Susan Minot. Some of the stories in this book were originally published in the following publications: the Paris Review, Grand Street, New Generation, Mademoiselle, Harper’s, and Columbia magazine. (P)2023 by Blackstone Publishing