This collection of four stories, "I Stand Here Ironing, " "Hey Sailor, What Ship?, " "O Yes, " and "Tell Me a Riddle, " has become an American classic. Since the title novella won the First Prize O. Henry Award in 1961, the stories have become staples in literature classes. They have been anthologized over a hundred times, made into three films, translated into thirteen languages, and - most important - once read, they live forever in the hearts of their readers.
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This collection of four stories, "I Stand Here Ironing, " "Hey Sailor, What Ship?, " "O Yes, " and "Tell Me a Riddle, " has become an American classic. Since the title novella won the First Prize O. Henry Award in 1961, the stories have become staples in literature classes. They have been anthologized over a hundred times, made into three films, translated into thirteen languages, and - most important - once read, they live forever in the hearts of their readers.
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Fair. The item is very worn but continues to work perfectly. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing (age related spots and browning). May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
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Set during "the pre-relief, pre-WPA world of the Depression," Tillie Olsen's story, "I Stand Here Ironing," turns on a working class single mother's refusal to discuss with a social worker her 19-year-old daughter Emily, and that refusal unlocks a poetic monologue of memories, guilts, and regrets. Written in 1953, what's striking about Olsen's story is the unnamed mother's concession that her daughter has an unknown life "beyond me," her acknowledgment of the economic forces that forced her to seek work, leave Emily with her husband's family, and send her to a strict, loveless convalescent home to recuperate from the measles. Emily's sister Susan is everything she is not: golden, confident, verbally dexterous. Emily becomes a stoic, anonymous in school, cultivates a gift for comedy, but one which has "clogged and clotted." In the end the mother's hope for her grown daughter is very modest: a life of sufficiency beyond physical appearances and domestic entrapment. Olsen's work is heartbreaking in its delineation of the ever-elusive American Dream and its limits.