| Description |
1 online resource (174 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; The Translation; The Ham Steak; G -- ; The Bridge; A Splinter in the Belly; At the Table; The Doorknob; The Sentence; The South Entrance; The Wool Coat; The Trees; The Drugstore Comb; The River; The Color of Straw; The House; The Glass of Water; The Sleepers; The Dirt; The Bruise; The Parable of the Bruise; The Melting Heads; The Hum; Daphne |
| Summary |
Winner of Ronald Sukenick Prize for Innovative Fiction The Bruise is a prize-winning novel of imperative voice and raw sensation. In the sterile dormitories and on the quiet winter greens of an American university, a young woman named M & mdash; deals with the repercussions of a strange encounter with an angel, one that has left a large bruise on her forehead. Was the event real or imagined? The bruise does not disappear, forcing M & mdash; to confront her own existential fears and her wavering desire to tell the story of her imagination. As a writer, M & mdash; is breathless, desperate, and obsessi |
| Notes |
Lambda Literary Awards, 2009: Lesbian Debut Fiction |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women college students -- Fiction
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Dreams -- Fiction
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FICTION -- General.
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Dreams
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Women college students
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| Genre/Form |
Lesbian fiction
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Fiction
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Lesbian fiction.
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Romans lesbiens.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781573668071 |
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1573668079 |
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