Personal Velocity
  • Published:
    Jul-2009
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    224
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The first Picador edition of Rebecca Miller's debut book “remind[s] us that good material is everywhere” (The Washington Post).

The vibrantly fresh and lustrous stories in Miller's collection explore the multifaceted lives of women in seven arresting portraits. Modern and diverse, these women of different classes and ages struggle with sexuality, fate, motherhood, infidelity, desperation, and an overriding will to survive.

We meet Greta, a cookbook editor who is chosen by Tavi, the hottest writer of his generation, to edit his new book. The book becomes a best-seller and Greta is propelled out of her marriage by her own ambition and success. Other characters include Paula, a pregnant twenty-one-year-old, who is on the run from the horror of a man who was hit by a car and died while walking her home from a nightclub; Delia, an abused working-class wife who goes into hiding with her children; and Louisa, a painter who moves rapidly from one lover to the next, acting out a self-perpetuating drama over which she has no control.

Rebecca Miller, who also adapted Personal Velocity for the screen, has crafted an edgy, fearless, and beautifully spare collection of short fiction.
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EDITIONS
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    • First Edition
    • Jul-2009
    • Canongate Books Ltd
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1847673465
    • ISBN13: 9781847673466
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    • Oct-2002
    • Grove Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0802139183
    • ISBN13: 9780802139184
    •  
    • Sep-2024
    • Picador
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1250349184
    • ISBN13: 9781250349187
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    • Sep-1901
    • Grove Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 080211699X
    • ISBN13: 9780802116994
    •  
    • Sep-2009
    • The Text Publishing Company
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1921799714
    • ISBN13: 9781921799716
    •  
    • Apr-2020
    • Canongate Books
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1847677746
    • ISBN13: 9781847677747
    •  
    • Sep-2024
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1250349192
    • ISBN13: 9781250349194
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    • Aug-2020
    • Brilliance Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1713547732
    • ISBN13: 9781713547730
    •  
    • Sep-2021
    • Brilliance Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 171357893X
    • ISBN13: 9781713578932



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