I'm A Registered Nurse Not A Whore

The darkly humorous stories in I'm A Registered Nurse Not A Whore take dead aim at how easily our desire to be good is perverted or undermined by a desperate need for love and recognition. Despite a world of fading optimism and advancing catastrophe, plans are formulated, deals drawn, bargains struck, and hope prevails. Beautifully flawed, well-meaning yet easily sidelined, the characters in these eight stories catapult off the rails of ordinary life before raising themselves up - if only for a moment - in oddly heroic ways. These stories will make you laugh, reflect, and yearn to carry on.

Customer Reviews:

Wow, can this woman write!

By Am?lie - January 14, 2011

The style of the stories reminded me of Alice Munroe, only really dark and full of mild-to-severe confusion and misery. This writer really "gets it", she fully understands how we create our own worlds. The darkness of the stories is more than offset by the brilliance of the writing: Perdue can capture a minor character in a couple of sentences, like a Matisse drawing. Here's a taste: "He was an honest, hard-working kind of guy. The kind of guy whose favourite book as a boy had been The Last of the Mohicans and who is comforted daily by one belief: true heroes are not upwardly mobile." Buy this book if you like deft short-story portraits of interesting people in difficult situations.

terrible

By captainmeowtron3k - March 2, 2013

This has nothing to do with nursing. It's a horrible book and is poorly written. It seems to be a collection of short stories, and I have no idea where they got the title from.