ANGELS GO NAKED

    Margaret Rose is a talented but nervous violinist given to bouts of stage fright and unrequited lvoe;Webster Hale is a bilolgist,who,on principle,refuses to kill animals in order to study them.In Angels Go Naked,a nowvel-in-stories,Cornelia Nixon,a writer whose gifts are apparent on every page,follows this vexde love story and the collision course that they call their life together.Margy learns too young about loss and guilt.Webster changes his name and tries to become like the indian ancestors he feels he must have,somewhere,in the family tree,Against all odds,they meet,fall in love,and marry.Margy begins to think about having a child ,and it is here that Cornelia Nixon most brilliantly captures the troubled but deeply symbiotic union of a wife who asys she desperately wants children and a husband who refuses to become a father.The course of their unhappiness,but one in which their connection is never in doubt ,is the story of this sad ,funny,moving ,and enormously compelling novel of contemporary love and loss.
作者简介:
CORNELIA NIXON lives in Berkeley,Californi and Bloomington,indiana .she is the author of the novel,Now You See It,and her short stories have appeared in Ploughshares,The lowa Review,and the New England Review,among other magazines.Two of the stories in this book received O.Henry Awards(one of them a first prize)and one was awarded a Pushcart Prize.

The Women Come and Go
A Solo Performance
Season of Sensuality
By the Shining Big Sea Waters
After the Beep
When a Miwok Takes a Wife
Flight
Last of the Genuine Castrati
Risk
Harbor
Canary in the Mine
Acknowledgments