| Description |
1 online resource (217 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
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Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
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| Contents |
The lightning tongues -- Sorry I worried you -- Cargo -- The history of staying awake -- Piecework -- The serial plagiarist -- Wire's wire, until it's a body -- Rip his head off -- Book owner -- Pharisees -- The Armstrong view -- Gatsby, Tender, Paradise. |
| Summary |
"In these twelve tales, poet and story writer Gary Fincke reconciles lost hope and quiet despair with small blessings and ultimate redemption." |
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"In the title story, Ben, a fifty-year-old bookstore clerk facing the possibility of prostate cancer, feels his life spiraling out of control as he endures his female doctor's examinations with childlike embarrassment on the one hand and struggles to conceal his age from his teenybopper coworkers on the other. Ben's only consolation is that "every day he heard about something a hundred times worse." In "Gatsby, Tender, Paradise," Bridgeford encounters a group of lightning strike and electrocution victims and feels lucky to have survived several light-switch shocks - the same type of shocks that have permanently disabled one man in the group."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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United States. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Working class -- Fiction.
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Working class. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fincke, Gary. Sorry I worried you. Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2004 0820326569 (DLC) 2004007413 (OCoLC)54906811 |
| ISBN |
9780820345857 (electronic book) |
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0820345857 (electronic book) |
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0820326569 |
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9780820326566 |
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