In his memoir, An Honorable Estate: My Time in the Working Press, Rubin describes a career that began with covering local news and sports for several Charleston newspapers and at the Army paper at Ft. Rubin's early ambition was to be a journalist. The city had been economically and culturally stagnant since the end of the Civil War in 1865, but in the 1920s and 1930s saw a growing tourist industry and the stirrings of economic modernization that brought the contrasts between Charleston's insularity and modern America to his attention. Rubin's childhood in Charleston and experience as a Jew growing up in the American South were among subjects he explored in three novels and a series of nonfiction memoirs. and Ph.D from the Johns Hopkins University in 19, respectively. from the University of Richmond in 1946, and an M.A. Army during World War II he studied Italian at Yale University as part of the Army Specialized Training Program, then worked as a journalist for the base newspaper at Fort Benning. Rubin studied for two years at the College of Charleston, then was drafted into the U.S. His father, who later became well known in Virginia as an amateur weather forecaster and published a book on weather forecasting, owned an electrical supply business. was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the eldest of the three children of Louis D. They get divorced or quit their jobs or tell people to step aside, and they move on.From the first story, about a modern-day Cinderella contemplating escape, to the last, 'Me and Big Foot,' an idyll about finding the perfect prince, McCorkle's collection is the genuine article, the work of a great storyteller who knows exactly how-and why-to pair longing and laughter.The Rubins lived at 2 North Allan Park, Charleston, South Carolina during the 1920s. McCorkle's characters make mistakes but aren't interested in hiding behind them. Some of them are confronting the reality of domestic disruption others are simply flirting with the possibilities-and dangers-of change. One way or the other, all of these stories are about women looking love in the face without flinching. Here, in her first collection in eight years, are eleven new stories bristling with her signature wit and weight. Jill McCorkle, a master of the short story whose work has been compared to that of Alice Munro and Lorrie Moore, is a writer whose characters insist on our immediate and total attention.

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