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1 online resource (310 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Four for a Quarter -- Diagnostic Drift -- Four Fifth Beatles -- 4H -- Leap Years -- Four Alabama Seasons -- Ruminant -- Four Postcards from Indiana -- The I States -- The Sex Life of the Fantastic Four -- Four Brief Lives -- Dutch Boy -- Four in Hand -- Antebellum -- Four Found Postcard Captions -- Quadratic -- Four Men in Uniform -- Board Games -- The First Four Deaths in My High School Class -- Four Foursquare Houses -- To Hell and Back: Four Takes -- 4 GS-14s --Tessera -- Four Corners -- The Blind: A Blues -- Four Ironies -- Harmonic Postcard Captions -- The Production of the First Xerographic Copy -- RPM --The Third Day of Trials -- The Deaths of Modern Philosophers -- Four Susans -- Four Dead in Ohio -- The Four Sides of a Triangle: Proof -- FAQs -- Four Eyes -- Mount Rushmore -- Chili 4-Way -- Four Fourths -- Four Signs -- Thought Balloons -- Four Places -- Four Calling Birds. |
| Summary |
Four is the magic number in Michael Martone & rsquo; s Four for a Quarter. In subject & mdash; four fifth Beatles, four tie knots, four retellings of the first Xerox, even the sex lives of the Fantastic Four & mdash; and in structure & mdash; the book is separated into four sections, with each section further divided into four chapterettes & mdash; Four for a Quarter returns again and again to its originating number, making chaos comprehensible and mystery out of the most ordinary. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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Short stories, American. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories, American.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Martone, Michael. Four for a Quarter : Fictions. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2011 9781573661638 |
| ISBN |
9781573668279 (electronic book) |
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1573668273 (electronic book) |
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9781573661638 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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