| Edition |
Break Away book Club edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 126 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Break away books
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Break away books.
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| Note |
Includes book club guide. |
| Summary |
"Unsettling and perceptive, these short stories challenge American girlhood in all its delusions, conflicting messages, and treacherous terrain. Wide- and wise-eyed, mysterious girls leave their realities behind for strange and slightly unreal places at the edges of the country. Alternatively they hover over their Midwestern homes in interior worlds of their own creation. The stories in Elegies for Uncanny Girls stand at a boundary where both the girls bodies and their tales are either their own or laid claim to by the culture and characters that surround them. A young woman whose body continually shrinks and expands moves to Los Angeles to make a movie about tragic merpeople; bewildered and seeking guidance, a new mom strikes up a conversation with a woman with detachable hands; and spurred on by a new ally who might just be a figment of her imagination, a girl decides she can choose her own friends. Colville's stories may be elegies, but her characters remain wondrously alive."--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Other mothers -- Costume -- Center -- Caroline -- Audra -- Details -- When Maggie thinks of Matt -- Jill, or The big little lady -- Dora -- Winona -- Book club guide. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Girls -- Fiction.
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Girls. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Young women -- Fiction.
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Young women. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Short stories.
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Short stories.
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| Subject |
Girls. |
| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2019018337
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Colville, Jennifer. Short stories. Selections. Elegies for uncanny girls. Break Away Book Club edition. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2017] 9780253024299 (OCoLC)952978408 |
| ISBN |
9780253024367 (electronic book) |
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0253024366 (electronic book) |
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9780253024299 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0253024293 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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