| Description |
1 online resource (v, 162 pages) |
| Series |
Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction |
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Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
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| Contents |
Cosmetic surgery -- The people I know -- Meeting in Tokyo -- Morning at the beach -- Grace's reply -- A minor fatality -- Final weeks -- The metal shredders -- From where I sit |
| Summary |
The People I Know is a collection of nine stories, told by characters who hover at the edge of life. Whether it's Lorne, perched on a sofa as a wedding party swirls around him, or the elderly Mrs. R of ""Morning at the Beach, "" imagining a career in crime as she sits on the front porch of a Miami hotel, these are people oddly accustomed to the sidelines of their worlds. Nancy Zafris's characters do not so much hurdle their barriers as contemplate them with varying degrees of humor, regret, and fanciful expectation. Gazing out of his window at a horizon of crushed cars, Bonner Junior fantasizes |
| Notes |
"Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction." |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
FICTION -- General.
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Manners and customs
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780820346656 |
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0820346659 |
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