| Description |
1 online resource (153 pages) |
| Series |
The Iowa short fiction award |
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Iowa short fiction award.
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| Contents |
First husband, first wife -- Lake Charles -- The accomplished son -- Squirrels -- Things kept -- Paragon tea -- Flights -- Things left behind -- Marathon man -- Prologue (two lives in letters) -- Stainless |
| Summary |
The stories in Things Kept, Things Left Behind explore the ambiguities of kept secrets, the tangles of abandoned pasts, and uneasy accommodations. Jim Tomlinson's characters each face the desire to reclaim dreams left behind, along with something of the dreamer that was also lost. Starkly rendered, these spiraling characters inhabit a specific place and class--small-town Kentucky, working-class America--but the stories, told in all their humor and tragedy, are universal. In each story the characters face conflict, sometimes within themselves, sometimes with each other. Each carries a past an |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Short stories.
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short stories.
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FICTION -- General.
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Short stories
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781587297687 |
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158729768X |
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