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1 online resource |
Series |
Prairie schooner book prize in fiction |
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Prairie schooner book prize in fiction.
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Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; You Say Tomato; The Kill Jar; Ramon Beats the Crap Out of George, a Man Half His Size; Mandatory Evacuations; Flipping Property; Nadja Rides the Bear; Feather Ann; Two Assholes; Two-Step Snake; How to Play Shit; Domesticated Wild Things |
Summary |
Just down the highway from Connecticut's Gold Coast is the state's rusty underbelly, the wretched, used-up sort of place where you might find Xhenet Aliu's Domesticated Wild Things: the reluctant mothers, delinquent dads, and not-quite-feral children, yet dreamers all. These are the children of immigrants who found boarded-up brass mills instead of the gilded streets of America; they're the teenaged girls raised in the fluorescent glow of Greek diners, the middle-aged men with pump trucks and teratomas. These are people who have fled, or who should have. And if they are indeed f |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Short stories, American.
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FICTION -- General.
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Short stories, American
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781461933946 |
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1461933943 |
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9780803271968 |
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0803271964 |
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