| Description |
1 online resource (v, 162 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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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| Note |
"Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction." |
| Contents |
Cosmetic surgery -- People I know -- Meeting in Tokyo -- Morning at the beach -- Grace's reply -- A minor fatality -- Final weeks -- 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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United States. |
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Short stories.
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Short stories.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zafris, Nancy. People I know. Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©1990 0820311928 (DLC) 89034553 (OCoLC)19811162 |
| ISBN |
9780820346656 (electronic book) |
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0820346659 (electronic book) |
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0820311928 |
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9780820311920 |
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